Cuban Ornithology

Title: Cuban Ornithology Author: Barbour, Thomas Publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Published by the Club, 1943. Description: Annotated list of the birds of Cuba by noted ornithologist Thomas Barbour. No. IX of the Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. First edition. Bound in full green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; in plain dust wrapper. With two photogravure plates depicting the Botanical Garden of the Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum (now known as Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos). 11 x 9 inches; 144 pages, [2] leaves of plates. Binding with mildly bumped corners and moderate offsetting of wrapper flaps to endpapers; title page with mild offsetting from plate. Dust wrapper significantly tanned and with minor chipping at the corners and top edge. Very Good+ in a Good+ dust wrapper. Thomas Barbour (1884-1946) was an American ornithologist and herpetologist who conducted extensive field work in the West Indies and Central America. He described many new specie