Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Hand-List of the Genera and Species of Birds, Vol. 1: Nomenclator Avium Tum Fossilium Tum Viventium
Tee first 'hand - list' of Birds was compiled by the late George Robert Gray, and published by the Trustees of the British Museum in three parts, in the years 1869, 1870, and 1871. This work has long been out of print, and the time seems to have come when a new Hand list would be of advantage to working ornithologists.
This new Hand-list has been written by Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, the author of the greater part of the Catalogue of Birds.' To the latter work reference is made throughout, and the Hand-list is avowedly founded upon the Catalogue but the new species described since the publication of the twenty - seven volumes which comprise the latter work will be here included, so as to bring the list of the known species of birds up to date.
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