Ornithological Dictionary
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The Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds was written by the English naturalist and army officer George Montagu, and first published by J. White of Fleet Street, London
Title page of first edition
Frontispiece of 1802 edition of the Ornithological Dictionary, showing a cirl bunting. Montagu discovered the species near his home in Devon.
The start of the Ornithological Dictionary's article on the cirl bunting
Montagu's book was considered the first major advance in British ornithology since Francis Willughby and John Ray's 1676 Ornithologia libri tres.
Le Règne Animal
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Le Règne Animal is the most famous work of the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. It sets out to describe the natural structure of the whole of the animal kingdom based on comparative anatomy, and its
Butterflies from the 1828 edition
Blackcock and pin-tailed sandgrouse. 1828 edition
Cyligramma limacina, an illustration from Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville's Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier 1829–1844
Spiny dogfish. 1828 edition