Item #2324477 New England Bird Life, Being a Manual of New England Ornithology, in Two Volumes: Part I. Oscines; Part II; None-Oscine Passeres, Birds of Prey, Game and Water Birds. Winfrid A. Stearns, Elliott Couse.
New England Bird Life, Being a Manual of New England Ornithology, in Two Volumes: Part I. Oscines; Part II; None-Oscine Passeres, Birds of Prey, Game and Water Birds

New England Bird Life, Being a Manual of New England Ornithology, in Two Volumes: Part I. Oscines; Part II; None-Oscine Passeres, Birds of Prey, Game and Water Birds

Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1881. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #2324477

First edition. Minor general wear, pencil name on second blank of volume one.

324; 409 pp. Two volume set. Revised and edited from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns. VOLUME ONE CONTENTS: Editor's Preface; Introduction; General Definitions; Preparation of Specimens for Study; The Subject of Faunal Areas; On the Literature of New England Ornithology; Birds of New England; Index of English Names; Index of Scientific Names. VOLUME II CONTENTS: Editor's Preface; Birds of New England.

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