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A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3

Spencer Fullerton Baird

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 896 pages

This is the third volume of a nineteenth-century natural-history survey of North American land birds. It presents detailed descriptions of owls, falcons, vultures, pigeons, turkeys, grouse, and partridges, with many plates and woodcuts. It is worth listening for its careful observation and its picture of early ornithological writing.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. LAND BIRDS. VOL. III.
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. RAPTORES.1—The Birds of Prey.
  4. Family STRIGIDÆ.—The Owls.
  5. Family FALCONIDÆ.—The Falcons.
  6. Family CATHARTIDÆ.—The American Vultures.
  7. Family COLUMBIDÆ.—The Pigeons.
  8. Family CRACIDÆ.—The Curassows.
  9. Family MELEAGRIDÆ.—The Turkeys.
  10. Family TETRAONIDÆ.—The Grouse.
  11. Family PERDICIDÆ.—The Partridges.
  12. APPENDIX.
  13. GLOSSARY.
  14. INDEXES.
  15. Footnotes
  16. Transcriber’s Notes
  17. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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