Cataloger supplied title.

No general t.p. Some vols. have individual t.p.s. See Cullman Library file for more bibliographical details and copy specific information and item records for specific title holdings.

"Under the above title are grouped various parts of a detailed, comprehensive work which was issued under a variety of cover-titles at irregular intervals in a most confusing manner. The entire work is extremely puzzling as to arrangement and method of appearance and I can find no complete and accurate collation of the various components."--Zimmer cat., p. 505

Volumes in this series are arranged according the general divisions suggested in the list in the British Museum catalog--Cf. BM (Nat. History), v. 4, p. 1669.

For specific dates of the ornithological parts see A.B. Meyer, Index zu L. Reichenbach's Ornithologischen Werken (Berlin, 1879).

Some of the plates are hand-colored.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History), v. 4, p. 1669

Cat. Handbibl. K. Zool. und Anthro-Ethnogr. Mus. Dresden, p. 102

Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library, p. 505-15

Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbèucher, 765

Reichenbach was an ornithologist who was director of the Natural History Museum in Dresden.

SCNHRB copy lacking [Abt. 1], Bd. 4 (39088002642890, 39088009157389, 39088009157371, 39088007445844).

SCNHRB copy [Abt. 1], Bd. 2-3, stamped on title pages: Library of Congress Smithsonian Deposit Nov 18 1927; Bd. 5 stamped: Remington Kellogg, Library of Marine Mammalogy Smithsonian Institution.

SCNHRB copy has two copies of [Abt. 2], Bd. 1 (39088000876078; 39088000876078, 39088000873901). Copy 1 possible proof copy, with unbound and uncut text and plates, duplicate p. 33-36 and 2 copies of pl. 86. Bd. 1, c. 2 bound in 2 vols. Plates divided into seven sections, each having a engraved t.p., printed in red, without imprint date: Natatores, Grallatores, Rasores, Investigatores, Trepidatores, Enucleatores, Raptatores. [Abt. 2], Bd. 2 (39088006367650).

SCNHRB copy [Abt. 3], c. 1 (39088016475949, 39088016476061, 39088016476145, 39088016475998, 39088016476038, 39088016476111, 39088016476194, 39088016476236, 39088016476277, 39088007001662) with bookplates of the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Deposit. [Abt. 3], c. 2 (39088016475980, 39088016476103, 39088016475956, 39088016476079, 39088016476152) unbound, housed in archival envelopes. [Abt. 3], c. 3 (39088016476020) [Abt. 4], c. 4 (39088002856326, 39088006988091, 39088016476350, 39088016476392)