Record

RefNoMS/257/4/157
AltRefNoSa.1286
Previous numbersES4/1/1286
LevelItem
Title'American Birds'
Date19th century
DescriptionIncludes a list of American birds according to different genus and reference to American ornithology. Notes have been arranged according to separate divisions of land birds and water birds. Includes a ‘memorandum of birds designed by [Alexander] Wilson to complete his American ornithology; found after his death’. Includes a list of ‘species described by [George] Shaw, not noticed by Wilson’, and a list of ‘Shaw’s continuation by [James Francis] Stephens. Includes a list of ‘Hudson’s Bay birds [?] by [Samuel] Hearne’. List of birds from Greenland taken from ‘a memoir presented to the Linnean Society’.
Extent53p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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