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Ornithology

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YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1872Key to North American birds containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary.
1873A monograph of the Paradiseidae or birds of paradise.
1874Field ornithology. Comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds and a check list of North American birds.
1877Les oiseaux de la Chine. Avec un atlas de 124 planches, dessinées et lithographiées par M. Arnoul et coloriées au pinceau. 2 vols.
1878​–1880American ornithological bibliography. 4 parts. (Also called "Ornithological bibliography").
1879​–1891Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 3 vols.: Part 1. Man: Homo sapiens.... Part II: Class Mammalia, other than man... Part III: Class Aves.
1881Catalogue of the ornithological library of the late John Gould.
1886A nomenclature of colors for naturalists, and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists.
1887​–1890The avifauna of British India and its dependencies. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of birds inhabiting British India, observations on their habits, nidification, &c., tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, Sind, Punjab, N.W. Provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations. 2 vols.
1888Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Systematik der Vögel, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Anatomie der Stütz- und Bewegungsorgane. 2 vols.
1893Leonardo da Vinci: Codice sul volo degli uccelli e varie altre materie. Pubblicato da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Transcrizione e note di Giovanni Piumati; traduzione francese di Carlo Ravaisson-Mollien.
1897Audubon and his journals by Maria R. Audubon. With zoological and other notes by Elliott Coues. 2 vols.
1903Turner on birds; a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle, first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544. Edited, with introduction, translation, notes, and appendix by A. H. Evans.
1918​–1922A monograph of the pheasants. 4 vols.
1919​–1968Life histories of North American Birds. 23 vols.
1938Bird books and bird art: An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology, based principally on the collection of books containing plates with figures of birds and their eggs now in the University Library at Copenhagen and including a catalogue of these works.
1942Ornithologists of the United States Army Medical Corps, thirty-six biographies.
1943The art of falconry, being the De arte venandi cum avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.
1948​–1949Bibliographie ornithologique française: [Vol.1:] Travaux publies en langue française et en latin en France et dans les Colonies Françaises de 1473 a 1944. [Vol. 2:] Abréviations des titres des publications périodiques cités dans la Bibliographie Ornithologique Française et Index méthodiques et systématiques. 2 vols.
1951Die Entwicklung Der Ornithologie von Aristoteles bis zur Gegenwart.
1966The original water-color paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America. Reproduced in color from the collection at The New York Historical Society. Introduction by Marshall B. Davidson. 2 vols.
1982The emergence of ornithology as a scientific discipline.
1982John Gould, the bird man. A chronology and bibliography by Gordon C. Sauer.
1986Of birds and Texas.
1992The medieval book of birds: Hugh of Fouilloy's Aviarium. Edition, translation and commentary by Willene B. Clark.
1996The origin and evolution of birds.
1996Manuscripts and drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications No. 2.
2002The flight of the Emu: A hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001.
2004Bibliographie der deutschen vogelkundlichen Literatur von 1480 bis 1850.
2006Evolution of character displacement in Darwin’s finches.
2011Aves: A survey of the literature of neotropical ornithology.
2012Birds in the ancient world.
2015Evolution of Darwin’s finches and their beaks revealed by genome sequencing.
2016Charles Darwin’s life with birds: His complete ornithology.
2018Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.