BIRDS OF WESTERN CANADA

TAVERNER, P.

Edité par Canada Department of Mines / Victoria Memorial Museum / Printed by F.A. Acland, Ottawa, 1926

Large thick octavo, rebound in a half-leather binding of pebbled brown calf over brown cloth boards, the spine with raised bands, decorated and lettered in gilt within the compartments, light brown marbled endpapers. 380 pp., 84 colour plates, line drawings in the text, Glossary, Index. Issued as Museum Bulletin No. 41, originally in paper and cloth, here in a lovely bespoke leather binding. Ink name, dated 1955 to front endpaper; small split to leather at base of front spine hinge but the binding is solid and holding well; mild tanning to spine panel. A lovely copy. "The volume is. an important contribution to the ornithology of North America. In plan it follows very closely the author's 'Birds of Eastern Canada,' reviewed in 'The Auk' for 1920, p. 147 and 1922, p. 582; a large part of the introduction, the key and some of the descriptions being very properly reprinted, almost verbatim, from that work. Notable improvements are the introduction of many line cuts of heads, feet wings etc., with some very useful silouettes of Hawks and other birds of the air as they appear from below, following the plan of Seton's paper in 'The Auk' for 1897, p. 395. The color plates, which are scattered through the text instead of being massed at the end of the volume, are from paintings by Allan Brooks and F. C. Hennesy, arranged as before two to a page. Those by Hennesy are from the east Canada work while those by Brooks are new with the present publication and represent, usually, exclusively western species. Altogether 167 species are figured. Mr. Taverner is to be congratulated upon doing for west Canada what he had already done for the eastern provinces and doing it still better. The work will enable western students to familiarize themselves with the bird life of their region and will result in the development of many an ornithologist for the future. Furthermore it provides ornithologists in general with an admirable work of reference on western birds while it contains much general information of importance from the pen of the author." - S., W. (1927) "Taverner's 'Birds of Western Canada'," The Auk: Vol. 44: Iss. 1. N° de réf. du vendeur 313985

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Titre : BIRDS OF WESTERN CANADA
Éditeur : Canada Department of Mines / Victoria Memorial Museum / Printed by F.A. Acland, Ottawa
Date d'édition : 1926
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Edition : First Edition (& 1st printing).