LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED 



[By F. C. R. JOURDAIN and F. B. KIRKMAN] 

 I. BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 



Arrigoni degli Oddi, Atlante Ornitologico (1902). 



BibliotJuca Zoologica (1700-1880). 



C. G. Giebel, Thesaurus Ornithologies. 3 vols. (1872-77). 



E. Coues, Ornith. Bibliography, 4th instalment. United States National Museum Proceedings, ii., 

 359-482 (1880). List of British Ornithological Works up to 1880. 



Zoologist, 18.90 (249-267). List by Miller Christy of British Local Faunas. 



Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society. 5th Edit. (1902). 



Zoological Record. Aves. (1864- ), a most valuable list of books and articles. 



.\<ituralist (1884-1905). Contains bibliographies for the Northern Counties and Man by W. D. 

 Roebuck. This bibliography was first published in the Naturalist for 1885, and was still in progress 

 in 1898, but had ceased in 1905. [F. c. R. J.] 



British Museum Catalogue of Books, 



British Museum Subject Index (G. K. Fortescue) (1881-1905). 



Dictionary of Birds, by A. Newton and H. Gadow (1893-1896). Introduction. [F. B. K.] 



II. GENERAL SYSTEMATIC WORKS (Descriptions, Distribution, Habits). 



(a) West Palcearclic. 



J. Gould, The Birds of Europe. 5 vols. (1832-37). 



C. R. Bree, A History of the Birds of Europe not observed in the British Isles. 5 vols. (1859-63). 

 2nd Edit. 5 vols. (1875-76). 



H. E. Dresser and R. B. Sharpe, The Birds of Europe. 8 vols. (1871-81). 1 vol. Supplement 

 (1895-96). (A very valuable storehouse of information, though now somewhat out of date.) 



J. Backhouse, A Handbook of European Birds (1890). (Brief descriptions only.) 



J. A. and J. F. Naumann, Naturgeschichte der Vogel Mitteleuropas. Revised edition under editor- 

 ship of Dr. Carl R. Hennicke. 12 vols. (1887-95). By far the most valuable foreign work of its 

 kind, but with respect to Habits is now somewhat out of date. 



E. Hartert, Die Vogel der PaldarUischen Fauna (in process of publication) (1903- ). Contains 

 accurate descriptions of all known local races and brief notes on life histories. 



C. G. Friderich, Naturgeschkhte der Deutschen Vogel, etc. Ed. v. Edited and revised by A. Bau 

 (1905). [F. c. R. J.] 



(b) East Palcearctic Region. 



J. Gould, The Birds of Asia. 7 vols. (1850-83). No comprehensive works on this enormous region 

 have been published of recent years except Dr. Hartert's Die Vogel der Palaarktischen Fauna, already 



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