The Natural History of Birds
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-02303-0 (ISBN)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–88), was a French mathematician who was considered one of the leading naturalists of the Enlightenment. An acquaintance of Voltaire and other intellectuals, he worked as Keeper at the Jardin du Roi from 1739, and this inspired him to research and publish a vast encyclopaedia and survey of natural history, the ground-breaking Histoire Naturelle, which he published in forty-four volumes between 1749 and 1804. These volumes, first published between 1770 and 1783 and translated into English in 1793, contain Buffon's survey and descriptions of birds from the Histoire Naturelle. Based on recorded observations of birds both in France and in other countries, these volumes provide detailed descriptions of various bird species, their habitats and behaviours and were the first publications to present a comprehensive account of eighteenth-century ornithology. Volume 6 covers parrots, parakeets and other foreign birds.
1. The fly-birds; 2. The colibri; 3. The parrot; 4. The cockatoos; 5. The parrots properly so called; 6. The jaco, or cinereous parrot; 7. The loris; 8. Varieties of the noira; 9. The collared lori; 10. The parrakeet loris; 11. Parrakeets of the old continent, in which the tail is long and equally tapered; 12. Parrakeets of the old continent, which have a long and unequal tail; 13. Short-tailed parrakeets of the old continent; 14. Parrots of the new continent; 15. The aras; 16. The Amazons and cricks; 17. The Amazon parrots; 18. The yellow-headed Amazon; 19. The tarabe, or red-headed Amazon; 20. White-headed Amazon; 21. Yellow Amazon; 22. Aourou-couraou; 23. Varieties of the aourou-couraou; 24. The cricks; 25. Varieties of the blue-headed crick; 26. The violet-headed crick; 27. The popinjays; 28. The tavoua; 29. The parroquets; 30. Parroquets of the new continent, with long and equally tapered tails; 31. The pavouane parroquet; 32. Parroquets with a long tail unequally tapered; 33. The cincialo; 34. The touis, or short-tailed parroquets; 35. The yellow-throated toui; 36. The golden-headed toui; 37. The curucuis; 38. The Curucukoo; 39. The touraco; 40. The cuckoo; 41. The anis; 42. The houtou, or momot; 43. The hoopoes, the promerops, and the bee-eaters; 44. The European goat-sucker; 45. The swallows; 46. The martin; 47. The sand martin; 48. The crag swallow; 49. The swift.
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology ; Volume 6 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | William Smellie |
| Zusatzinfo | 25 Plates, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 37 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 820 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-02303-7 / 1108023037 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-02303-0 / 9781108023030 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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