1895 A Chapter on Birds: Rare British Visitors

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and seventeen colour plates. Collated complete. A charming study on rare British birds, their habits, plumage, and migration patterns, with chapters on: the red-footed kestrel, the golden oriole, the shore-lark, the blue-headed wagtail, the waxwing, the aquatic warbler, the Arctic blue-throat, and more. Written by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, an English zoologist and ornithologist who worked as curator of the bird collection at the British Museum of Natural History. Over his career he described many new species of bird and had species named in his honour including Sharpe's Longclaw (Macronyx sharpei) and Sharpe's Starling (Poeoptera sharpii).