A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America

by John Gould

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First edition

London: Richard and John E. Taylor for the Author, 1844 –1850. / First edition, a fine copy in the three original parts as issued, of Gould's monograph on the New World quails and partridges — the only one of his folios devoted exclusively to American birds, and among the rarest of his works. Thirty-two hand-coloured lithographed plates by Gould and Henry Constantine Richter depict the Odontophorinae across their range from the Canadian forests

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