Check-list of North American Birds. The Species of Birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands. Prepared by the Commitee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologist's Union.
Washington DC: American Ornithologist's Union, 1998. Hardcover. Seventh Edition. The American Ornithologist's Union (AOU) was founded in 1883. At its first Congress in September 1883, it resolved to appoint a committee to study the question of a Revision of the Classification and Nomenclature of the Birds of North America. The committee submitted its report in 1885, and it was approved for publication. The first edition was published in 1886. There were six subsequent editions. This is the 7th and final edition, published in 1998. In 2016, the AOU merged with the Cooper Ornithological Union to form the American Ornithological Society, which publishes a successor, the AOS Checklist of North American Birds, which is updated annually online.
The initial AOU Nomenclature and Check-list publication is very important historically, and according to Joel Asaph Allen, the AOU's first president, is the basis for the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
Large octavo. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt title to spine. Maps of North American and Central America and West Indies to front and back pastedowns and free end papers. Pages are clean and bright. Spine is cocked. Minor wear to covers, and several small smudges to edges of text block. 829 pages, including index. Scarce. NAT/080822. Very Good.
Item #35912
ISBN: 189127600X
Price: $50.00