TY - BOOK AU - Gould,John TI - The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2 of 7 AV - QL PY - 2019/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Birds -- Australia -- Pictorial works N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_of_Australia_(Gould); Release date is 2019-09-15; Produced by Richard Tonsing, MWS, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2 of 7" by John Gould is a natural history survey published between 1840 and 1848. This groundbreaking work presents the first comprehensive documentation of Australian birds, describing 681 species through hand-colored lithographic plates. Created after Gould's two-year collecting expedition to Australia with his wife Elizabeth, the book introduced 328 species previously unknown to Western science. The plates combine Elizabeth Gould's original drawings with contributions from other artists, capturing the remarkable diversity of Australia's avian life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60302 ER -