Nineteenth–Century Ornithology

Volume 1: Ornithology at Home

Henry A. McGhie

• Publisher: Routledge
• Edition: 1
• Year: 2026
• Topic: History
• Print ISBN:
  9781041296874
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040916100
• Index: History

Volume 1, Ornithology at Home, includes readings from the prespective of ornithology in Britain. Readings are selected from key British ornithologists, including Gilbert White, Thomas Bewick and John Gould. John James Audubon appears in this volume, as his lasting fame and his monumental books were secured in Britain (rather than in America). Readings in this volume explore the establishment of natural history journals (such as the Zoologist and the Ibis). Other readings cover the development of the early bird protection laws in the mid and late 19th century. The volume concludes with some 'outliers' from the main thrust of British ornithology: the artist Joseph Wolf, William Tegetmeier (who specialised in domesticated birds) and Charles Darwin.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series Editor Introduction
• Acknowledgements and Credits
• General Introduction
• Volume I Introduction
• 1 Advertisement, Letters I, X and XIX–XXI, in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne …
• 2 Advertisement, Introduction, Spoonbill, White Stork, and Lesser Imber from History of British Birds
• 3 Egyptian Vulture, Great Black Woodpecker, Capercaillie, and Bustard from A History of British Birds
• 4 An Illustrated Manual of British Birds (extracts)
• 5 Introductory Address, The Prairie, Esquimaux Curlew, Thomas Bewick, and Volume V Introduction from Ornithological Biography
• 6 The Birds of Great Britain (extracts)
• 7 The Zoologist (extracts)
• 8 Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London
• 9 On the Founding of the British Ornithologists’ Union and Some Early Papers
• 10 On the Ornithology of Northern Africa
• 11 On the Zoological Aspect of Game Laws
• 12 Society for the Protection of Birds Educational Series Nos. 1–3, Owls, Woodpeckers, Starlings
• 13 A Run Through the Museums of Europe
• 14 Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae, and Impennes (extracts)
• 15 Remarks on the Divergencies between the Rules for Naming Animals of the German Zoological Society and the Stricklandian Code of Nomenclature
• 16 Preface, A List of British Birds Committee of the British Ornithologists’ Union
• 17 A Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, Caithness and West Cromarty (extracts)
• 18 Variation, from A Dictionary of Birds
• 19 Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club (extracts)
• 20 The Owl; The Crow from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals
• 21 The Poultry Book (extracts)
• 22 Pheasants: Their Natural History and Practical Management (extract)
• 23 Domestic Pigeons, from The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
• Bibliography
• Index