Arthur Hay, Marquess of Tweeddale | A list of the birds known to inhabit the Philippine archipelago, London, 1875

Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale

A list of the birds known to inhabit the Philippine archipelago. London: Zoological Society of London, 1875

4to (314 x 250mm.), lithographed map and 11 hand-coloured lithographed plates, red morocco-backed cloth

Extracted from the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol. 9, part 2, April 1875.

Arthur Hay, 9th Marquis of Tweeddale (1824-1878), became president of the Zoological Society of London in 1868. He was a noted zoological collector, and employed Carl Bock to travel to maritime south-east Asia to gather specimens. Between them, they discovered and described about 40 new species.

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