Ornithology of Australia. Volume 1, commences with Acquila and ends with Smicrornis, ca. 1863-1875 / by Silvester Diggles

Silvester Diggles - Pictorial and manuscript collection, ca. 1863-1875

Volume 1 includes drawings of eagles, falcons, hawks, kestrels, goshawks, buzzards, kites, harrier, owls, night tar, tawny frogmouths, goat-suckers, swallows, Australian swift, martins, Australian bee-eater, Australian roller, Laughing Jackass [i.e. kookaburra], kingfishers, halcoyons, genus pardalotus, shrike [magpies], butcher birds, pied grallina, greucalus, campephaga [shrikes/thrush], pachycephala, thick-head, drongo, fan-tails, fly-catchers, and gerygone.  Many plates have more than one drawing on each page. 

Each drawing is followed by a page with the scientific name of the bird; with volume and page number. 

Index to Volume 1 listing order, family, and genus at front of volume.

List of plate numbers in the four volumes attached to front endpaper of Volume 1.

Ornithology of Australia. Volume 1, commences with Acquila and ends with Smicrornis, ca. 1863-1875 /...

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