Oology and Ralph's Talking Eggs : Bird Conservation Comes Out of Its Shell.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (194 pages)
- Mildred Wyatt-Wold Series in Ornithology Series .
- Mildred Wyatt-Wold Series in Ornithology Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword (Noble S. Proctor) -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE: The House of the Talking Eggs -- TWO: The Heyday of Oology: 1880-1918 -- THREE: In the Beginning -- FOUR: Early Exits from the Land: These Birds Were among the First to Go -- FIVE: Wild Bird Eggs -- SIX: The Handsaker Egg Collection: Ralph's Talking Eggs -- SEVEN: One Hundred Years Later -- EIGHT: Scientific Value of Eggs and Egg Collections -- Epilogue -- Species Identification for Eggs in Photos -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Handsaker, Ralph,-1886-1969-Natural history collections. Peabody Museum of Natural History-Natural history collections. Birds-Eggs-Collectors and collecting. Birds-Eggs-Catalogs and collections.