Catesby's Birds of Colonial AmericaAlan Feduccia With this lovely and informative volume, Alan Feduccia preserves the pathbreaking work of Mark Catesby, the English naturalist and illustrator who founded natural history and bird art in America. First published by UNC Press in 1985, the book features all |
Contents
Introduction | |
Editors Note on the Plates | 11 |
The Plates | 13 |
The Text of The Natural History of Carolina Florida and the Bahama Islands | 131 |
Bibliography | 167 |
Index of Common and Scientific Names of Birds and Plants | 169 |
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animals appear Audubon Bahama Islands bald eagle bark berries bill bill black body booby breast and belly breed brown Catesby Catesby's chuck-will's-widow cock colonial color common common nighthawk covered deer duck eagle Editor's Note eggs England eyes feed fish five Florida flowers footstalks four frequent fruit grain gray green Gross-beak ground grows hawk head inches long Indians inhabitants insects kind land latitude Laughing Gull Lawson leaves legs and feet Little Blue Heron mandible Mark Catesby miles Natural History neck nest nighthawk normal clutch North America northern Northern Cardinal numbers Painted Bunting particularly Pigeon pine places plant PLATE purple Purple Martin quill feathers resembles rivers rocks seeds seen shape shrubs side skin South Carolina species spot stalks summer tail thick Titmouse trees upper mandible usually Virginia Virginia and Carolina warbler whip-poor-will wings winter wood Woodpecker yellow