John Gould's extinct and endangered birds of Australia
Taylor, Sue, 1949-2012
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Click and Collect for John Gould's extinct and endangered birds of AustraliaIn 1838, John Gould, the father of Australian ornithology, visited Australia with the intention of gathering material for his great work on Australian birds. In the resulting publication, The Birds of Australia: In Seven Volumes (1848), and the accompanying Supplement (1869), Gould named, for the first time, no fewer than 32 Australian bird species. Gould's words about the Norfolk Island Kaka were prophetic - the last bird of its kind died in a cage in London in 1851. Since then, a number of other species illustrated in The Birds of Australia have become extinct and others are now facing extinction. John Gould's Extinct and Endangered Birds of Australia features 59 plates of birds from Gould's eight-volume work, birds that today are threatened or that no longer exist.
Main title:
John Gould's extinct and endangered birds of Australia / Sue Taylor.
Author:
Imprint:
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2012.
Collation:
iv, 247 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241) and index.
ISBN:
9780642277657
Dewey class:
598.1680994
Language:
English
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BRN:
202659
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Animals | 598.1680994 TAY | Available |
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