PBA Galleries

[xii]. 592 pp. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. (4to) 10½x7½, original dark green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. First Edition.

A volume from the Geological Survey of California headed by Josiah Whitney. "A report on the birds of California prepared by Cooper from his own field-work and notes, and submitted to Baird for revision and publication. The general accounts, except where signed otherwise, are from the pen of Cooper. Vol. II was to have comprised a similar volume on the water birds, but was replaced by the two volumes of Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway on The Water Birds of North America, 1884. - Wood.