Natural history of parrots / By Prideaux J. Selby ... Illustrated by thirty-two plates: with memoir and portrait of Bewick, by the Rev. Mr. Turner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

  • Selby, Prideaux John, 1788-1867.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Natural history of parrots / By Prideaux J. Selby ... Illustrated by thirty-two plates: with memoir and portrait of Bewick, by the Rev. Mr. Turner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ee wa > 11 Also a Second Edition of the First Part, price 10s. 64. demy 8vo. containing the LAND BIRDS, with Additions ; and remodelled to correspond with the present improved system of classification in Ornithology; upon which prin- ciples the Second Part of the Work has been conducted. The Letter-press, in its present form, although containing references to the volumes of Plates, constitutes in itself an independent Manual of British Ornithology, embracing the History and Description of every species hitherto found in Great Britain. Ln the Press, WILSON’S ILLUSTRATIONS OF ZOOLOGY. Part X.—Vol. I1].—Price 16s. Being representations of new, rare, or otherwise remarkable subjects of the AnimaL Kixepom, Drawn and Coloured after Nature, with historical and descriptive details. By JAMES WILSON, Esq., F.R.S.E., M.W.S, &e. The Publishers deem it unnecessary, in announcing the commencement of the Second Volume of these illustrations, to enter into any detailed expianation of the nature of the Work. Its merits, both in a scientific and pictorial point of view, may now be judged of frem an inspection of the first volumes