Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 50 of
50
with 100 items per page.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia abstract "The Handbook to the Birds of Australia is a two-volume work published in London in 1865 by the author John Gould. It was published in octavo format (250 x 170 mm), containing some 1290 pages, bound in green cloth with gilt lyrebirds on the front covers and with decorated gilt spines. The two volumes are separately paginated and include no illustrations It is essentially a revision and update of the text originally published with Gould’s monumental illustrated folio The Birds of Australia, which was published in seven volumes between 1840 and 1848. The author says in his Preface:”Nearly twenty years have elapsed since my folio work on the Birds of Australia was completed. During that period many new species have been discovered, and much additional information acquired respecting those comprised therein; consequently it appeared to me that a careful résumé of the entire subject would be acceptable to the possessors of the former edition, as well as to the many persons in Australia who are now turning their attention to the ornithology of the country in which they are resident. Indeed I have been assured that such a work is greatly needed to enable the explorer during his journeyings, or the student in his quiet home, to identify the species that may come under his notice, and as a means by which the curators of the museums now established in the various colonies may arrange and name the collections intrusted to their charge. With these views the present Handbook has been prepared.”In 1972 Lansdowne Editions published a facsimile reprint of the Handbook, with the two volumes bound in one, including a foreword (“A Note on the Handbook”) by Allan McEvey, Curator of Birds at the National Museum of Victoria, as well as a biographical note on John Gould by John Currey. In his foreword McEvey says:"The essential status of the Handbook emerges from its historical position; it looks back to the beginning of Australian ornithology, summarizing the known, and forward to the great Catalogue by Sharpe and others, and to the Australian works of Ramsay, Campbell, North and Mathews. From this transitional point it provides the present-day worker with an invaluable link between the early and the recent. Here will be found the familiar quote, (e.g. on the strength of Shrike-tit mandibles), the elusive reference, (e.g. an early note on the possible breaking of Emu’s eggs by the Buzzard), and many an easily over-looked observation (e.g. the remarks on the flight of the Owlet-nightjar). If one sees the text in historical perspective and reads critically (e.g. Gould’s comments on the nesting sites of pardalotes are inadequate) it may generally be said that the Handbook entry offers the best starting-point for the serious gathering of information on any particular Australian species."But in addition to the extraordinary amount of good observation it records, and to its plentiful snippets of ornithological and, indeed, Australian history, the Handbook offers pleasing samples of natural history prose of the nineteenth century which, verbose or not, reflect the dignity that the age expected of its science. It is true that Gould broadly speaking, was deaf to the song of Australian birds, but this probably shows the subjectiveness of nationality rather than a lack of appreciative ability. He was an Englishman, attuned to a mellow countryside and a seasonal bird-song, now in an arid land, looking – and listening – for ornithological differences. The Murray Scrub (mallee) was a far cry from Dorset, and 26 Charlotte Street; he heard little that stimulated nostalgic affection; and one does not become an Australian in two years But he was not insensitive and his various comments illustrate both his inevitable limitation and his response to the aesthetic.”".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia author John_Gould.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia isbn "N/A".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia publisher London.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia wikiPageID "24795521".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia wikiPageRevisionID "587632386".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia author John_Gould.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia genre "Zoology".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia hasPhotoCollection Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia isbn "N/A".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia language "English".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia mediaType "Print".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia name "Handbook to the Birds of Australia".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia pages "xxiv + 636 , 630".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia pubDate "1865".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia publisher "Author: London".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia subject "Australian birds".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia subject Category:1865_books.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia subject Category:Books_about_Australian_natural_history.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia subject Category:Ornithological_handbooks.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type 1865Books.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type Artifact100021939.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type Book106410904.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type BooksAboutAustralianNaturalHistory.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type Creation103129123.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type Handbook106421301.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type Object100002684.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type OrnithologicalHandbooks.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type Product104007894.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type Publication106589574.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type ReferenceBook106417598.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type Whole100003553.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type Work104599396.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type Book.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type Work.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type WrittenWork.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type Book.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type Book.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type CreativeWork.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia type InformationEntity.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia comment "The Handbook to the Birds of Australia is a two-volume work published in London in 1865 by the author John Gould. It was published in octavo format (250 x 170 mm), containing some 1290 pages, bound in green cloth with gilt lyrebirds on the front covers and with decorated gilt spines.".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia label "Handbook to the Birds of Australia".
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia sameAs m.080ld1v.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia sameAs Q5647333.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia sameAs Q5647333.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia sameAs Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia wasDerivedFrom Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia?oldid=587632386.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia isPrimaryTopicOf Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia.
- Handbook_to_the_Birds_of_Australia name "Handbook to the Birds of Australia".