Gallinaceous-birds. Part II, game-birds
Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)
1834
Information About
This is a book on game-birds, part of the gallinaceous family of birds. It provides information on the different species of the bird with details of their appearance, living habits and habitats. The book contains many colour illustrations of the birds.
Additional Details
- Title
- Gallinaceous-birds. Part II, game-birds
- Creators
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- Jardine, William, Sir, 1800-1874
- Subject
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- Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781-1826
- Game and game-birds
- Publisher
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- W. H. Lizars, and Stirling and Kenney, 1834
- National Library Board Singapore, 1834
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill. (chiefly col.)
- Table of Contents
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- Memoir of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles -- Natural history of Gallinaceous birds -- Genus Perdix. The common partridge. The mountain partridge. The painted partridge. The rock of Barbary partridge. The chukar partridge. The common francolin. The sanguine partridge. The coromandel quail. The common quail. Latreille's Attagis. The Virginian quail or partridge. The Californian ortyx. The long-tailed ortyx -- Grouse. The wood grouse of Capercailzie. The Canadian grouse. The ruffed grouse. The pinnated grouse. The sharp-tailed grouse. The cock of the plains -- Grouse-ptarmigan. The red-grouse ptarmigan. The common ptarmigan. The common black grouse. Pallas's sandgrouse. The banded sand grouse -- The crowned cryptonix. The white-spotted ortygis. Black-necked ortygis. The guazu. The tataupa -- Portrait of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.
- Copyright
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- Digitised images, All rights reserved, National Library Board Singapore, 2009