Front cover image for The birds of North America; one hundred and nineteen artistic colored plates representing the different species and varieties drawn and colored from nature. Including a copious text giving a popular account of their habits and characteristics, based on observations made in the field by the most eminent writers on ornithology. Prefaced by a systematic table and index to page, plate and figure

The birds of North America; one hundred and nineteen artistic colored plates representing the different species and varieties drawn and colored from nature. Including a copious text giving a popular account of their habits and characteristics, based on observations made in the field by the most eminent writers on ornithology. Prefaced by a systematic table and index to page, plate and figure

Print Book, English, 1903
Published under the auspices of the Natural Science Association of America, New-York, U.S.A., 1903
2 preliminary leaves, 16, 182, [10] pages CXIX color plates 39 x 32 cm
37657629
Corresponds to [v.1] of original edition, 1878: Studer's popular ornithology
"The original drawings for the work were made from nature, by Theodore Jasper ... Revised by John Graham Bell ... The systematic table ... wasprepared by Frank M. Chapman."--Announcement