Words For Birds: A Lexicon Of North American Birds with Biographical Notes

Very good hardcover in un-clipped jacket. Spotting along top edge, age tanning to DJ. Kenneth C. Parker's book review clipped from The Auk (April 1974) is laid in.

An ornithological, etymological, biographical and historical guide to 800 North American birds, including:

• The origins of their common English names and scientific names (including some howling misnomers)
• The bizarre bird lovers who discovered them, thought they discovered them, named them, misnamed them, or through no fault of their own had birds named after them.
• Including 238 illustrations from Alexander Wilson in the margins