The Natural History of Birds
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-02304-7 (ISBN)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–88), was a French mathematician who was considered one of the leading naturalists of the Enlightenment. An acquaintance of Voltaire and other intellectuals, he worked as Keeper at the Jardin du Roi from 1739, and this inspired him to research and publish a vast encyclopaedia and survey of natural history, the ground-breaking Histoire Naturelle, which he published in forty-four volumes between 1749 and 1804. These volumes, first published between 1770 and 1783 and translated into English in 1793, contain Buffon's survey and descriptions of birds from the Histoire Naturelle. Based on recorded observations of birds both in France and in other countries, these volumes provide detailed descriptions of various bird species, their habitats and behaviours and were the first publications to present a comprehensive account of eighteenth-century ornithology. Volume 7 covers woodpeckers and kingfishers.
1. The woodpeckers; 2. The green woodpecker; 3. The wryneck; 4. The barbets; 5. The tamatia; 6. The tamatia with the head and throat red; 7. The collared tamatia; 8. The beautiful tamatia; 9. The black and white tamatias; 10. The barbets; 11. The yellow-throated barbet; 12. The black-throated barbet; 13. The black-breasted barbet; 14. The little barbet; 15. The great barbet; 16. The green barbet; 17. The toucans; 18. The toco; 19. The yellow-throated toucan; 20. The red-bellied toucan; 21. The cochicat; 22. The hotchicat; 23. The aracaris; 24. The grigri; 25. The koulick; 26. The black-billed aracari; 27. The blue aracari; 28. The barbican; 29. The cassican; 30. The calaos, or rhinoceros birds; 31. The tock; 32. The manilla calao; 33. The calao, of the island of Panay; 34. The Molucca calao; 35. The brac, or African calao; 36. The Abyssinian calao; 37. The Philippine calao; 38. The round-helmeted calao; 39. The rhinoceros calao; 40. The king fisher; 41. Foreign king fishers; 42. The aquatic birds; 43. The stork; 44. The black stork; 45. The crane; 46. The collared crane; 47. The common heron; 48. The great white heron; 49. The black heron; 50. The purple heron; 51. The violet heron; 52. The white garzette; 53. The little egret; 54. The crab catchers; 55. The open bill; 56. The bittern; 57. The biboreau; 58. The biboreau of Cayenne; 59. The tufted umbre; 60. The courliri, or courlan; 61. the savacou; 62. The white spoon bill; 63. The woodcock; 64. The snipe; 65. The jack snipe; 66. The brunette; 67. The barges; 68. The common barge; 69. The barking barge; 70. The variegated barge; 71. The rufous barge; 72. The great rufous barge; 73. The rufous barge of Hudson's Bay; 74. The brown barge; 75. The white barge; 76. The horsemen; 77. The common horsemen; 78. The redshank; 79. The striped horseman; 80. The variegated horseman; 81. The white horseman; 82. The green horseman; 83. The ruff and reeve; 84. The maubeches; 85. The common maubeche; 86. The spotted maubeche; 87. The gray maubeche; 88. The sanderling; 89. The green sandpiper; 90. The common sandpiper; 91. The sea partridge; 92. The gray sea partridge; 93. The brown sea partridge; 94. The giarole; 95. The collared sea partridge; 96. The sea lark; 97. The cincle.
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology ; Volume 7 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | William Smellie |
| Zusatzinfo | 31 Plates, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 34 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 770 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-02304-5 / 1108023045 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-02304-7 / 9781108023047 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
aus dem Bereich
