Author: Verreaux, J.
Title: Description de quelques oiseaux nouveaux appartenant a la collection zoologique du Museum. [AND] Description de quelques oiseaux nouveaux.
Description: Paris, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, 1860. Large 4to (31.2 x 24.4 cm). 13 [6; 5] pp. and four [2; 2] very fine handcoloured plates. 20th-century hardcover paper binding. = Two papers by the same author from the golden age of descriptive ornithology. with very fine, large plates. Published in the museum's Nouvelle Archives (Bulletin). Apart from four new species, also one new genus, Ampelioides, is decribed, and two species, Foudia eminentissima from Zanzibar described by Bonaparte, and Crossoptilon drouynii Milne Edwards from Tibet, are redescribed and illustrated for the first time. Some minimal, marginal foxing, otherwise very good, clean.

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