Publication Date: 1922
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: VG. 1922 first edition. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, vol XXIV no 8. octavo wraps. Later plain wraps. Library blind stamp. no other marks. 77p. Includes: Nesting Habits of Purple Martin, How yound birds are fed; where Martins roost; Crows' winder roost at St. Louis; Chaetura Pelagica; Birds of the Ozarks and more. VG no owner marks.
Publication Date: 1922
Seller: Antiq. F.-D. Söhn - Medicusbooks.Com, Marburg, Germany
First Edition
Trans. Acad. Sc. St.Louis, 24/ 8. - St. Louis, Issued December, 1922, 8°, 77 pp., orig. Broschur; feines unaufgeschnittenes Expl. First Edition! Content: Nesting habits of the Purple Martin. How young birs are fed. Where the Martins roost. The Crow's winter roost at St. Louis. Our birds in winter. Chaetura Pelagica (Linn.) chimney swift. Birs of the Ozarks. Reminiscences of a visit to Branson and White River, Spring of 1906. Otto Widmann (1841-1933) American ornithologist of German origin who was among the first to document the birds of the Missouri region. He published it in 1907 as a Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of Missouri after spending years to accumulate notes that were lost in a fire in 1905. He recorded the now restricted Bachman's sparrow in Missouri.