Description: 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.

Box: 46

Format: Drawings (visual works)

Identifier: 547150

Collection: SIA RU007167, Robert Ridgway Papers, circa 1850s-1919.

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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