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- catalog abstract ""Since 1600 some 80 bird species have become extinct. The author of this text has drawn on a wide range of sources for his accounts of these birds, their habits and demise, with evidence of preserved specimens brought to life by the eye-witness accounts of early travellers and explorers. Their stories are sometimes tantalizingly slight: isolated sightings of a single bird may be the only evidence that a species ever existed. By contrast, the expeditions of 19th-century naturalists are often well documented and their descriptions accompanied by detailed drawings and paintings. In more recent cases our knowledge about an extinct species can be so extensive that even the precise time and place of death of its last surviving member is recorded. Virtually all of the species documented here are illustrated with colour plates from archival sources, including the work of such acknowledged masters as Audubon, Keulemans and Lear. These artists often had the advantage of working from fresh specimens or even from living birds, and besides its beauty their work is a primary source of scientific knowledge in its own right."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12216856.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Since 1600 some 80 bird species have become extinct. The author of this text has drawn on a wide range of sources for his accounts of these birds, their habits and demise, with evidence of preserved specimens brought to life by the eye-witness accounts of early travellers and explorers. Their stories are sometimes tantalizingly slight: isolated sightings of a single bird may be the only evidence that a species ever existed. By contrast, the expeditions of 19th-century naturalists are often well documented and their descriptions accompanied by detailed drawings and paintings. In more recent cases our knowledge about an extinct species can be so extensive that even the precise time and place of death of its last surviving member is recorded. Virtually all of the species documented here are illustrated with colour plates from archival sources, including the work of such acknowledged masters as Audubon, Keulemans and Lear. These artists often had the advantage of working from fresh specimens or even from living birds, and besides its beauty their work is a primary source of scientific knowledge in its own right."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 388-391) and index.".
- catalog description "Ratites -- Tinamous, penguins, divers, grebes -- Albatrosses and petrels -- Pelicans and related birds -- Herons, storks and related birds -- Waterfowl -- Birds of prey -- Gallinaceous birds -- Rails and related birds -- Gulls, wading birds and murres -- Pigeons and doves -- Parrots -- Cuckoos, owls and goatsuckers -- Kingfishers, woodpeckers, etc. -- Perching birds -- Hypothetical species and mystery birds.".
- catalog extent "398 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Extinct birds.".
- catalog identifier "080143954X (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Extinct birds.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, N.Y. : Comstock Pub.,".
- catalog relation "Extinct birds.".
- catalog subject "598.168 21".
- catalog subject "Extinct birds.".
- catalog subject "QL676.8 .F85 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ratites -- Tinamous, penguins, divers, grebes -- Albatrosses and petrels -- Pelicans and related birds -- Herons, storks and related birds -- Waterfowl -- Birds of prey -- Gallinaceous birds -- Rails and related birds -- Gulls, wading birds and murres -- Pigeons and doves -- Parrots -- Cuckoos, owls and goatsuckers -- Kingfishers, woodpeckers, etc. -- Perching birds -- Hypothetical species and mystery birds.".
- catalog title "Extinct birds / by Errol Fuller.".
- catalog type "text".