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SWAINSON, William.
The Naturalist's library; Ornithology. [Vol. 7], Birds of Western Africa. Part 1 / by W. Swainson.
William John Swainson (1789 – 1855) was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist, and artist. A lovely volume showing detailed studies of many birds illustrated in their natural settings.
- Published
- Edinburgh: 1837, (1843 printing)
- Plates
- 101
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Edinburgh: 1837, (1843 printing)
- Ref
- 76
Modern red morocco binding with attractive tooling in blind and gilt to boards and spine. Black label with gilt title to spine. Octavo. Marbled endpapers. Contains lovely renditions of several birds of Western Africa, Pigeons, and Gallinaceous birds, all engraved within their particular habitats. In lovely condition throughout. Coloured plates in order: 1. Red Throated Piha. 2. White-Eyebrowed Longtail. 3. Grey Piha. 4. Blackbird & Song Thrush. 5. Rufus-Eared Blackcap. 6. Yellow-White-Eye. 7. Cuvier's Thick-Bill. 8. Ptilinopus Monachus. 9. Pennant-Winged Night-Jar. 10. Scissor-Tail or Swallow Blackcap. 11. Senegal White Backed Crow. 12. Carpophaga? Magnifica. 13. Great Senegal Swallow. 14. Cock-Tailed Water-Chat. 15. Crested Black Water-Chat. 16. Blue Cheeked Bee Eater. 17. Mocking Water-Chat. 18. White Bodied Grakle. 19. Spectacle or White-Winged Water-Chat. 20. The Longtailed or Northern Hareld. 21. Forked-Tailed Blue-Vented Bee-Eater. 22. Grey Wagtail. 23. White Shafted Fan-Tail. 24. Great African Kingfisher. 25. Broad Shafted Whidah Finch. 26. Black Fan-Tail. 27. Columba Oenas. 28. Red Billed Whidah. 29. Raven. 30. Dishwater Fantail. 31. Columba Livia. 32. Whiskered Fantail. 33. Columba Livia, Var Laticauda. 34. Common Guilemote. Winter Plumage. 35. The Dusky Totanus. Summer / Winter. 36. Golden Hooded Flycatcher. 37. Black Guillemot. Summer & Winter Plumage. 38. Columba Livia, Var, Cucullata. 39. Columba Livia, Var, Gutturosa. 40. Spotted Totanus / Common Totanus. 41. Hawfinch. 42. Red Collared Bengaly. 43. Fire Backed Sunbird. 44. Brindled Guillemot. 45. Swallow-Tailed Nauclerus. 46. Rufus-Crowned Tody. 47. Ruff. 48. Columba Livia, Var, Turcica. 49. Goldfinch. 50. Purre or Dunlin. 51. Turtur Risorius. 52. Yellow Crested Flat Bill. 53. Centrocercus Urophasianus. 54. Black-Winged Stilt. 55. Black-Headed Tody. 56. Yellow Bellied or Cape Bunting. 57. Snow Bunting. 58. Violet Plantain Eater. 59. Senegal Touraco. 60. Long-Tailed African Tody. 61. Red-Eyed Pigeon. 62. Spectacle Tody. 63. Nectarinia Hasselth. 64. Peristera Tympanistria (Tambourine Ground Dove) Native of South Africa. 65. Peristera Tympanistria. 66. Puff-Backed Bush Shrike. 67. Grey-Headed Flycatcher. 68. Peristera Rufaxilla. 69. Common Thick-Knee. 70. As above. 71. Cuckoo. 72. Senegal Courier. 73. Peristera Cuprea. 74. Balack Zoned Plover. 75. Black-Bodied Lapwing. 76. White Owl. 77. White-Collared Flycatcher. 78. White Plumed Shrike. 79. Oystercatcher. 80. The Glaucous Gull. 81. Striped-Throated Lapwing. 82. Water Rail. 83. Crimson Shouldered Caterpillar Catcher. Female. 84. Ortygis. 85. Yellow-Billed Waterhen. 86. Buff-Bodied Flycatcher. 87. Richardson's Skua. 88. Glophilus Carunculatus. (The Carunoulated Ground Pigeon.) native of South Africa. 89. Fulmar Petrel. 90. Meadow or Corn Crake. 91. Grey Cap'd Gull. 92. Horfields Gaper. 93. Climbing Leaflove. 94. The Stormy Petrel. 95. Spotted Craje. 96. Oriale Babbler. 97. Common Gallinule. 98. Yellow-Crowned Weaver. 99. Lesser White Crowned Rock Thrush. 100. Crested Tern. 101. Tetrao Umbellus.