Transactions Of The Zoological Society Of London..
Disbound periodical article. Plates detached from text. Pages uncut. A very good copy.
£60.00
Publisher
[Printed for The Society: Sold at their House in Hanover Square; and by Messrs. Longmans, Green, etc. Paternoster-Row.],
Place
[London]
Date
1878
Synopsis
On the skull of the Æithognathous birds- part ii. by w. k. parker, f.r.s., etc.
Item Description
Large 4to. 10 x 12.75 inches. 251-314 pp.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 9 chromolithograph plates.
Notes
The term Ægithognathous refers to a confirmation of the bone of the palate typical of passerine (i.e. singing and perching) birds. Examples given here include tanagers, cardinals,, buntings, yellowhammers, finches, larks, tits, nuthatches, wagtails, flycatchers, orioles, martins and swifts (here considered with the passerines), etc. They include both British birds and species from the tropics and subtropics.
[Stock No. 23450]
Subjects
19th Century • Birds • Illustrated • Natural History • Natural History/Science • Periodicals • Zoology