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Birds -- Catalogs and collections

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Australia-Macmillan Expedition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn200
Scope and Contents

Field notes, catalogs, specimen tags, lists of specimens and photographs. Field specimen numbers Q1 to 254B.

Dates: 1940

Brewster-Sanford Expedition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn211
Scope and Contents

Catalogue of bird skins and birds, specimen numbers 1-7863, expedition journal of Rollo H. Beck-(handwritten and typed bound copy), photographs and correspondence.

Dates: 1912-1933

Catalogue of anatomical bird material

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn19
Scope and Contents

Catalogue of anatomical bird material at the American Museum of Natural History. Entries for each specimen include AMNH number, collector's name, name, date, locality, sex, collector, donor, cross reference, and remarks. The catalogue spans four volumes.

Dates: 1888-2010

Catalogue of birds in exhibition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn17
Scope and Contents

Catalogue of birds in the exhibition collection at the American Museum of Natural History. Entries for each bird include museum number, original number, name, sex and age, date, locality, name of collector, name of donor, dimensions, and remarks. The catalogue spans two volumes and was originally begun by Edgar A. Mearns during the period 1883-1884. Information in the volumes spans 1812-1994.

Dates: 1883-1994

Catalogue of birds in study collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn18
Scope and Contents

Catalogue of birds in the study collection at the American Museum of Natural History. Catalogue entries for each bird include museum number, original number, name, sex, date, locality, name of collector, name of donor, dimensions, and remarks. The catalogue spans 47 volumes.

Dates: 1870s-2011

Catalogue of bones of birds in the American Museum of Natural History

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn16
Scope and Contents

Catalogue of bird bone specimens at the American Museum of Natural History. Entries for each specimen include museum number, original number, name, sex, date, locality, name of collector, name of donor, character of specimen, and remarks. The catalogue spans one volume.

Dates: 1888-1982

Cecil Underwood collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn114
Scope and Contents

Notes and sketch map, Cecil Underwoods collecting localities in Honduras, list of birds, envelope of loose labels

Dates: 1940s

Charles William Beebe collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn204
Scope and Contents

Catalogs of bird skins; notes on nest and egg collections. Collections from Guyana.

Dates: 1898-1915

Chester Van Buren collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn116
Scope and Contents

Report on collection of birds made by Chester Van Buren, principally in Colombia and Guatemala, systematic lists, correspondence and memos.

Dates: circa early 1900s, 1940s