Study of the recent Pelicans, with descriptions of new genera and species

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Contained In: Edgar Alexander Mearns Papers, circa 1871-1916, 1934 and undated

Series: SIA RU007083

Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

By

Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1916

Notes

Paper on descriptions of recent Pelicans with descriptions of new genera and species. Information on new speceis of Pelecanus and the new genera Neopelecanus and Pseudopelecanus are included. Also included is a letter from Mearns to Leonhard Stejneger, Head Curator of Biology, regarding this manuscript : "I have the honor to transmit herewith the manuscript of a paper entitled 'A Study of the recent Pelicans, with descriptions of new Genera and Species,' with the request that it be published in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections." The manuscript is undated, so the date for this item is the date of Mearns's correspondence with Stejneger, 21 February 1916.

Subjects

Field notes , Ornithology , Pelicans

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.161738