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Free obscure bird publications at Duke; and Re: TOS meeting



Hi C-birders,

Re the TOS spring meeting: I took a course in "Bird Biology and 
Conservation" from Chuck Smith while I was a Cornell undergraduate. I can 
second the opinion of how entertaining a speaker he is. Even listening to 
him lecture twice a week for four months, I never had any trouble staying 
awake in his class.

As long I already brought up the topic of TV shows on birding, I should 
mention "Acorn the Nature Nut" on Animal Planet. Most of his shows deal 
with insects, reptiles, and other creepy-crawly critters, but at least 
two episodes (probably more) focus on birdwatching. John's a lot of fun.

The Duke library is in the process of disposing of the library of the 
late, great Joe Bailey. Many of the more valuable things have been sold, 
and the remainder is being left out for anyone who wants it. I looked 
through the boxes the other day and found a pile of bird-related things. 
All are from the Smithsonian, and most are basically museum collection 
notes. Still, they contain discussions of behavior, ecology, and 
distribution of each species, and the authors include a couple of 
legendary figures of North American ornithology. The "Arctic Adaptation" 
book I thought was the most interesting. The bird titles are below; there 
were also a number of other publications on plants, insects, geography, 
and general biology, many in portuguese. The bird-related publications 
are listed below: anyone with interest in them should come by Duke's Bio 
Sci building and pick them up, or contact one of the carolinabirders here 
(me, Will, Jeff, lots of others) and have us get them for you.

Deignan, Herbert "Type Specimens of Birds in the United States National 
	Museum"

Deignan, Herbert 1963 "Checklist of the Birds of Thailand"

Irving, Laurence 1960. "Birds of Anaktuuk Pass, Kobuk, and Old Crow: A 
Study in Arctic Adaptation"

Wetmore, Alexander 1933. "Additional Notes on the Birds of Haiti and the 
Dominican Republic"

Wetmore, Alexander 1939. "Observations on the Birds of Northern 
Venezuela"

Wetmore, Alexander 1943. "The Birds of Southern Veracruz, Mexico"

Riley, J.H. 1938. "Birds from Siam and the Malay Peninsula in the U.S. 
National Museum, collected by Drs. Hugh M. Smith and William L. Abbott"

Friedmann, Herbert 1930. "Birds Collected by the Childs Frick Expedition 
to Ethiopia and Kenya Colony - Part 1. Non-passeres"

Friedmann, Herbert 1937. "Birds Collected by the Childs Frick Expedition 
to Ethiopia and Kenya Colony - Part 2. Passeres."

Friedmann, Herbert, and Robert Ridgway 1941-46-50. "The Birds of North 
and Middle America", parts IX-XI. (No idea where parts I-VII are).

Friedmann, Herbert, and Foster D. Smith 1950. "A Contribution to the 
Ornithology of Northeastern Venezuela".

Joshua S. Rose
Duke University
Department of Zoology

jsr6@acpub.duke.edu
http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/