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Abstract: Pertains to a collection of ninety two color plates painted by various accomplished artists. While the publication certainly establishes an artistic flair, it is in many ways factual as well. The book discusses over two hundred and ninety-five bird species found throughout North America. Comprehensive in nature, the guide offers insight into each bird species habitat, scientific name and other relevant information. Readers can expect to learn about the vast bird species that exist in North America, while also enjoying the stunning art work featured by the following artists, Allan Brooks, George M. Sutton, Walter A. Weber, Francis Lee Jaques, Walter J. Breckenridge, Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

Notes: Illustrated with ninety-two color plates by Allan Brooks, George M. Sutton, Walter A. Weber, Francis Lee Jaques, Walter J. Breckenridge, and Louise Agassiz Fuertes

Accession Number: 7201

Call Number: 06.1 R54b

Collection: Archives Library

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Nature on the page : the print and manuscript culture of Victorian natural history

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2019

Author: Zytaruk, Maria

Publisher: Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

Call Number: 04 Z1n

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Author: Zytaruk, Maria

Responsibility: Maria Zytaruk

Publisher: Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Botany; Birds; Art; History; Exhibition catalogue; Exhibitions

Abstract: This is the catalogue to an exhibition that will showcase both the collecting and manuscript practices of Victorian naturalists and how books, in some instances, encased the specimens themselves. A special focus here is women practitioners of natural history--as authors of and contributors to published works, and as artists and collectors (From publisher's website)

Contents: Foreward; Introduction; Chapter 1: Plans and the matter of the Victorian book; Chapter 2: Paper birds; Chapter 3: Containing nature; Chapter 4: Women in the world of Victorian botany; Chapter 5: Orchids for the few; Epilogue; Appendix: List of itmes in the exhibition

ISBN: 9780772761262

Accession Number: 2021.07

Call Number: 04 Z1n

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publishers website

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Thrushes, Thrashers, and Swallows*

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1936

Author: Pearson, Gilbert T.

Publisher: National Geographic

Call Number: 04.2 P31t

Variant Title: *Robins and Bluebirds are familiar members of a famous musical family which includes the Hermit Thrush and European Nightingales

Author: Pearson, Gilbert T.

Responsibility: Gilbert T. Pearson

Publisher: National Geographic

Published Date: 1936

Physical Description: 13 pages ; illus.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Birds; Birds--Alberta; Zoology; Zoology--Alberta; Wildlife; Wildlife artists; Art

Abstract: Pertains to the family Mimidae

Contents: Game Wardens find out who killed the cock robin Colonists found a “Blue Robin” Three wives in a single season Cousins of the Nightingale Woodlands ring with flutelike music The Mockingbird is a world-famous vocalist Swallows of a feather flock together What’s in a name? Townsend’s Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius) Olive-backed Thrush (Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni) Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) Hermit Thrush (Hylocichla guttata) Veery (Hylocichla fuscescens fuscescens) Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis sialis) Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) Bendire’s Thrasher (Toxostoma bendirei) California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum redivivum) Crissal Thrasher (Toxostoma dorsale dorsale) Leconte’s Thrasher (Toxostoma lecontei lecontei) Purple Martin (Progne subis) Northern Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon albifrons albifrons) Barn Swallow (Hirundo erhthrogaster) Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina lepida) Tree Swallow (Iridoprocne bicolor) Bank Swallow (Riparia Riparia Riparia) American Pipit (Anthus spinoletta spinoletta) Sprague’s Pipit (Anthus spraguei) Horned Lark (Otocoris alpestris)

Notes: Reprinted from National Geographic, Volume LXIX, No. 4, April 1936; Paintings by Maj. Allan Brooks

Accession Number: 825

Call Number: 04.2 P31t

Collection: Archives Library

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