Catalogs, 1883-1986.

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Catalogs, 1883-1986.

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Catalogs of birds housed in the Dept. of Ornithology. Information listed when available includes Museum number, collector's number, scientific name, sex, date collected, name of collector, and remarks. Early catalogs also have columns for age, dimensions of specimen, and name of donor.

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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology

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The Department of Ornithology, sits within the Division of Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History. It maintains one of the largest collections of bird specimens in the world. The research collections of the Department number nearly one million specimens; these include skins, skeletons, alcoholic preparations, eggs, nests, and tissue samples for molecular biochemical studies. A large number of type specimens and rare or extinct species are also found in its collections. The specime...