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• Aves
• Avian fauna
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• Pacific Coast Avifauna (partial serial archives)
• Audubon and His Journals (2 volumes; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by John James Audubon, ed. by Maria R. Audubon, contrib. by Elliott Coues
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Beautiful Birds in Far-Off Lands: Their Haunts and Homes (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1873), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• The Bird (New York: T. Nelson and sons, 1869), by Jules Michelet, contrib. by Hector Giacomelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bird Neighbors, by Neltje Blanchan (Gutenberg text)
• Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• Birds Through an Opera Glass (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1889), by Florence Merriam Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Birds Through an Opera-Glass (Cleveland et al.: The Chautauqua Press, c1889), by Florence Merriam Bailey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Extinct Birds: An Attempt To Unite in One Volume a Short Account of Those Birds Which Have Become Extinct In Historical Times, That is, Within the Last Six or Seven Hundred Years; To Which are Added a Few Which Still Exist, But Are on the Verge of Extinction (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1907), by Lionel Walter Rothschild (page images at Wisconsin)
• Friends in Feathers (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and company, 1917), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Homing With the Birds: The History of a Lifetime of Personal Experience With the Birds (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1919), by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Homing With the Birds: The History of a Lifetime of Personal Experience With the Birds (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at Indiana)
• What I Have Done With Birds (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1907), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wild Nature's Ways (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1909), by Richard Kearton, illust. by Cherry Kearton and Richard Kearton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology (London: Lonman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838), by Charles Waterton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, by James S. Jameson, ed. by Mrs. James S. Jameson, illust. by Charles Whymper (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Status and Distribution of Alaska Birds, by Brina Kessel and Daniel D. Gibson (PDF at unm.edu)

• Avian Anatomy: Integument (2 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1972), by Alfred M. Lucas and Peter R. Stettenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phylogenetic Analysis of Avian Hindlimb Musculature (1991), by Mary C. McKitrick (PDF at Michigan)

• Birds of Pine-Oak Woodland in Southern Arizona and Adjacent Mexico (1957), by Joe T. Marshall (PDF at unm.edu)
• Birds of the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona (1904), by H. S. Swarth (PDF at unm.edu)
• Birds Recorded from the Santa Rita Mountains in Southern Arizona, by Florence Merriam Bailey (PDF at unm.edu)
• A Distributional List of the Birds of Arizona (1914), by H. S. Swarth (PDF at unm.edu)

• Handbook to The Birds of Australia (2 volumes; London: Pub. by the Author, 1865), by John Gould (page images in Australia)

• Life Histories of Central American Birds (3 parts, 1954-1969), by Alexander F. Skutch
  • Part I: PDF at umn.edu
  • Part II: PDF at umn.edu
  • Part III: PDF at umn.edu
• The Breeding Biology of the Acadian Flycatcher (1964), by Russell E. Mumford (PDF at Michigan)
• Annual Variation of Daily Energy Expenditure by the Black-Billed Magpie: A Study of Thermal and Behavioral Energetics (1981), by John N. Mugaas and James R. King (PDF at unm.edu)

• Catalogue of British Columbia Birds (1904), by British Columbia Provincial Museum and Francis Kermode (Gutenberg text)
• A Distributional List of the Birds of British Columbia, by Allan Brooks and H. S. Swarth (PDF at unm.edu)

• A Revised List of the Birds of Southwestern California (1933), by George Willett (PDF at unm.edu)
• Birds of the Islands off the Coast of Southern California, by A. Brazier Howell (PDF at unm.edu)
• Birds of the Pacific Slope of Southern California (1912), by George Willett (PDF at unm.edu)
• Check-List of California Birds, by Joseph Grinnell (PDF at unm.edu)
• Directory to the Bird-Life of the San Francisco Bay Region, by Joseph Grinnell and Margaret W. Wythe (PDF at unm.edu)
• A Distributional List of the Birds of California (1915), by Joseph Grinnell (PDF at unm.edu)
• Some Birds of the Fresno District, California (1913), by John G. Tyler (PDF at unm.edu)
• A Systematic List of the Birds of California (1912), by Joseph Grinnell (PDF at unm.edu)
• A-Birding on a Bronco (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by Florence Merriam Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)

• How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers (San Francisco and New York: P. Elder and Co., c1907), by Robert Williams Wood
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg
• How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers, and Other Wood-Cuts (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1917), by Robert Williams Wood
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org

• Life Histories of Central American Birds (3 parts, 1954-1969), by Alexander F. Skutch
  • Part I: PDF at umn.edu
  • Part II: PDF at umn.edu
  • Part III: PDF at umn.edu

• Phylogenetic Analysis of Avian Hindlimb Musculature (1991), by Mary C. McKitrick (PDF at Michigan)
• Type Specimens of Birds in the Collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (1988), by Robert W. Storer (PDF at Michigan)
• Systematics and Evolutionary Relationships Among the Herons (Ardeidae) (1976), by Robert B. Payne and Christopher J. Risley (PDF at Michigan)

• Nestling Mouth Markings and Colors of Old World Finches Estrildidae: Mimicry and Coevolution of Nesting Finches and Their Vidua Brood Parasites (2005), by Robert B. Payne (PDF at Michigan)

• The Cranes: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan (1996), ed. by Curt D. Meine and George W. Archibald (PDF with commentary at iucn.org)
• Cranes: Their Biology, Husbandry, and Conservation, ed. by David H. Ellis, George F. Gee, and Claire M. Mirande (frame-dependent PDF files at USGS)
• A Review of the Problem of Lead Poisoning in Waterfowl, by Glen C. Sanderson and Frank C. Bellrose
  • zipped HTML at Wayback Machine (some other links might not work)
  • HTML at eku.edu (zip file link may not work)
• A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bartleby

• Diseases of Canaries (Jersey City: T.F.H. Publications, c1933), by Robert Stroud, ed. by Herbert C. Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Birds (this translation c1950), by Aristophanes, trans. by Gilbert Murray (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Birds, by Aristophanes (Gutenberg text)
• Birds, by Aristophanes, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• Chantecler: Play in Four Acts (1910), by Edmond Rostand, trans. by Gertrude Hall Brownell (Gutenberg text)

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