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Nineteenth–Century Ornithology: Volume II: Ornithology Abroad book cover

1st Edition

Nineteenth–Century Ornithology Volume II: Ornithology Abroad

Edited By Henry A. McGhie Copyright 2026
544 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Volume 2, Ornithology Abroad, focusses on ornithological activity beyond Britain. The volume commences with readings related to ornithology and the quest for the North West Passage. These are followed by a reading from Alexander Wilson, a Scot who emigrated to America and found fame (if not fortune) as an ornithologist, illustrator and author.  Staying in America, the next readings cover the... Read more

Volume II: Ornithology Abroad 

Series Editor Introduction

Acknowledgements

General Introduction

Volume II introduction

 

1. W. Swainson and J. Richardson, ‘Lists of Specimens Presented to the Zoological Society and the Museum of the University of Edinburgh’, and ‘Great Cinereous Owl’, Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the zoology of the Northern parts of British America vol. 2 (Birds) (London: John Murray, 1831), pp. ix–xxi, 77-80. 

2. E. Sabine, ‘Birds’, in W. E. Parry (ed.), A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, in the years 1819-20: containing an account of the subjects of natural history (London: John Murray, 1824), pp. 193–210.

3. A. Wilson, C. L. Bonaparte and W. Jardine, American Ornithology vol. 1 (London: Whittaker, Treacher & Arnot, 1832), pp. xxxviii–xlix.

4. Spencer F. Baird, Directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting specimens of natural history, prepared for the use of the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC:  Smithsonian Institution, 1852), pp. 3–8, 15, 17–8.

5. E. Coues, Field Ornithology: comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds, and a check list of North American birds (Salem (Mass.): Naturalists’ Agency, 1874), pp. 5–24, 27–33, 53–70.

6. A. Newton and E. Newton, ‘Observations on the Birds of St Croix’, Ibis 1(1), pp. 59–69; 1(2): pp. 138–50; 1(3): pp. 252–64; 1(4): pp. 365–79 (1859).

7. C. Waterton, Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c. (London: J. Mowman, 1825), pp. v–vii, 113–26.

8. H. E. Dresser, ‘The Birds of Southern Texas’, Ibis, 7(3): pp. 312-30; 7(4): pp. 466–95; 8(1): pp. 23–46 (1865-66). (pp. 312–21). 

9. P. L. Sclater, ‘On the Geographical Distribution of Class Aves’, Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology), 2 (1858), pp. 130–45.

10. A. R. Wallace, The Malay Archipelago (London: Harper and Brothers, 1869), pp. 445-450

11. A. R. Wallace, The Geographical Distribution of Animals, with a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the past Changes of the Earth’s Surface. 2 vols. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1876), pp. 15-28.

12. J. Gould, The Birds of Australia, 7 vols. (London: published by the author, 1840–8), extracts.

13. J. Gould, The Birds of Asia 7 vols. (London: published by the author, 1850–83), extracts.

14. W. L. Buller, A History of the Birds of New Zealand 2 vols, 2nd ed. (London: privately published, 1888). Extracts

15. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, ‘On the birds collected by the Earl of Ranfurly in New Zealand and adjacent islands’, Ibis series 8, 5 (1905), pp. 543–7, 548–50, 565-6, 571–2.

16. A. O. Hume, ‘Stray notes on Ornithology in India’, Ibis, Second series 5 (1869), 1–20.

17. A. O. Hume, Stray Feathers (1892), extracts.

18. R. B. Sharpe, ‘The Hume collection of Indian birds’ [letter], Ibis, fifth series, 3 (1885), pp. 456–62.

19. W. T. Blanford, ‘Preface’, in E. W. Oates and W. T. Blanford (ed.), ‘Birds’. Four vols of The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma (London: Taylor and Francis, 1889–98), vol. 1, pp. iii–x.

20. H. T. Ussher, ‘Notes on the Ornithology of the Gold Coast’, Ibis, third series, 4 (1874), pp. 43–62, 67.

21. R. Swinhoe, ‘Notes on Ornithology taken between Takoo and Peking, in the neighbourhood of the Peiho River, Province of Chelee, North China, from August to December, 1860’, Ibis, 3, pp. 323-6.

22. R. Swinhoe, ‘The ornithology of Formosa, or Taiwan’, Ibis, 5(2) (1863), pp.198–210.

23. R. Swinhoe, ‘Letter’, Ibis, second series 1 (1865), pp.  538–9.

24. R. Swinhoe, ‘A voice on ornithology from Formosa’, Ibis, second series 2 (1866), pp. 129–30.

25. R. Swinhoe, ‘Notes on Chinese ornithology’, Ibis, series 3, 3 (1873), pp. 361–2.

26. O. Salvin and F. D. Godman, ‘Introduction’, Biologia Centrali-Americana- Aves 3. vols. (London: R. H. Porter, (1879–1904), vol. 1, pp. 5–10.

27. W. L. Rothschild, ‘On extinct and vanishing birds’, Proceedings of the 4th International Ornithological Congress 1905, London (1907), pp. 191–217.

28. H. W. Feilden, ‘List of Birds observed in Smith Sound and in the Polar Basin during the Arctic Expedition of 1875–76’, Ibis, fourth series, 1 (1877), pp. 401–12.

29. C. R. Darwin, ‘Journal of Researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N’. Second edition. (London: John Murray), pp. 378–81.

30. C. R. Darwin and J. Gould, ‘The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., During the Years 1832 to 1836. Part III, Birds’, (London: Smith, Elder and Co., published with the approval of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, 1841), pp. i-ii, 62–4, 98–106.

Index

 

Biography

Henry McGhie is a consultant for museums and the heritage sector. His publications include Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology: Birds, Books and Business (2017)

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