Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing #157x

Ridgway, Robert 1850-1929

This drawing or engravings of bird heads was used in Spencer F. Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer, and Robert Ridgway's, A History of North American Birds: Land Birds, 3 volumes (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874) and The Water Birds of North America: Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, vols. XII-XIII (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1884). Heads drawn by Ridgway and Henry W. Elliott.