Research Catalog

Land birds of America

Title
Land birds of America [by] Robert Cushman Murphy [and] Dean Amadon. Photographed by Eliot Porter, Hal Harrison, Allan Cruickshank, Helen Cruickshank and thirty other photographers. Published with the cooperation of The American Museum of Natural History.
Author
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973.
Publication
New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., [1953]

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Additional Authors
  • Amadon, Dean
  • Cruickshank, Allan D.
  • Cruickshank, Helen B. (Helen Burness)
  • Porter, Eliot, 1901-1990
  • American Museum of Natural History.
Description
240 pages illustrations (some color); 32 cm
Summary
Each Chapter is dedicated to one type of bird. There are 30 chapters in this book.
Subject
  • Birds > North America
  • Birds > Pictorial works
  • Natural history > Pictorial works
  • Birds
  • Birds
  • Oiseaux > Ouvrage illustrés
  • Oiseaux > Amérique du Nord
  • Oiseaux > Ouvrages illustrés
  • Sciences naturelles > Ouvrages illustrés
  • Oiseaux
  • Natural history
  • Landvögel
  • Landvèogel
  • North America
  • North America
  • Amérique du Nord
  • Nordamerika
Genre/Form
  • illustrated books.
  • Illustrated works
  • Pictorial works
  • Illustrated works.
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Contents
Birds of prey -- Upland game birds -- Plovers and sandpipers -- Owls -- Pigeons and doves -- Cuckoos -- Goatsuckers -- Swifts -- Hummingbirds -- Trogons and kingfishers -- Woodpeckers -- Flycatchers -- Larks -- Swallows -- Jays, magpies, and crows -- Titmice -- Nuthatches and creepers -- Kinglets and gnatcatchers -- Wrens -- Mockingbirds and thrashers -- Thrushes -- Pipits and wagtails -- Shrikes -- Waxwings and phainopeplas -- Starlings -- Vireos -- Wood warblers -- Blackbirds and orioles -- Tanagers -- Finches, cardinals, and sparrows.
LCCN
53005191
OCLC
  • ocm00555785
  • 555785
  • SCSB-2109128
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library