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430355
  • Title
    Series 02: Silvester Diggles - Notes to accompany Australian Ornithology, ca. 1863-1875
  • Call number
    A 1526
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    1863-1875
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    430355
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : CY 2319, frames 1-170
  • Physical Description
    1 volume - 0.03 Meters
    Textual Records - (manuscript)
  • Scope and Content
    Arrangement & Classification of Orders & Families [5 paged index]
    Index of Genera
    Notes on the various species of Australian birds including appearance (colour, shape, and dimensions), locality discovered, habitat, and references to volume and plate numbers in Gould's [Birds of Australia], and Diggles' work [Ornithology of Australia] (310 pages).
  • General note

    This manuscript is a companion volume to: Ornithology of Australia, 1863-1875 / by Silvester Diggles.
    Pages bear watermark, "Edinburgh 1863"
    Some pages are blank.
    Paper label inside front cover, "Made by / J.W. Buxton, / wholesale and retail / bookseller, stationer, / and account book manufacturer, / Queen Street, Brisbane. / ...."
    "D.S. Mitchell" signature on title page.
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Titled from spine and title page.
    Beneath title handwritten in pencil, "Short notices of the birds of / Australia collected from the / newest & best sources / by / Silvester Diggles"
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