Birds of America by John J. Audubon With A Foreword and Descriptive Captions by William Vogt, published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1962. First Macmillan Edition, Sixth Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated. 435 plates.

The Birds of America is a book by naturalist and painter John James Audubon, containing illustrations of a wide variety of birds of the United States. It was first published between 1827 and 1838 and it is considered to be the archetype of wildlife illustration.

This is a splendid 1962 edition published by The Macmillan Company with reproductions of the original plates, each captioned with description and notes on habitat, identification, and nesting. Original title page facsimile included. 

This book is the perfect gift for animal lovers, nature lovers, art enthusiasts, and history buffs alike.

CONDITIONThis Book is in good condition. Tight binding. Clean text. No writing, no bookplates. The dust jacket is scuffed, has a few minor tears and edge wear but it was wrapped with a clear cover and secured with tape by previous owner to protect it from further damage. Pages have turned yellow from age. Foxing on the book edges commensurate with age.  There is a tear on the inner hinge. There is a small tear on the bottom of plate 373. Please see pictures. THE PICTURES ARE TO BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THE DESCRIPTION. PLEASE REVIEW THEM FOR A BETTER IDEA OF CONDITION.

PLATES:

Wild Turkey

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Prothonotary Warbler

Purple Finch

Canada Warbler

Wild Turkey

Purple Grakle

White throated Sparrow

Hooded Warbler

American Pipit

Bald Eagle

Baltimore Oriole

Slate-Colored Junco

Prairie Warbler

Parula Warbler

Duck Hawk

Mourning Dove

Bewick's Wren

Louisiana Water Thrush

Blue-winged Warbler

Mocking Bird

Purple Martin

Maryland Yellow-Throat

Maryland Yellow-Throat

Song Sparrow

Carolina Paroquet

Red headed Woodpecker

Blue-Headed Vireo

Towhee

Pine Warbler

Bald Eagle

Black-billed Cuckoo

Goldfinch

Worm eating Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Cooper’s Hawk

Flicker

Kentucky Warbler

Tufted Titmouse

American Redstart

Ruffed Grouse

Orchard Oriole

Cedar Waxwing

Summer Tanager

Alder Flycatcher

Barred Owl

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Cerulean Warbler

Cerulean Warbler

Magnolia Warbler

Red-tailed Hawk

Chuck-will's Widow

Painted Bunting

Bobolink

Cuvier’s Regulus

Red-shouldered Hawk

Loggerhead Shrike

Hermit Thrush

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Carbonated Warbler               

Great Horned Owl

Passenger Pigeon

White-eyed Vireo

Swamp Sparrow

Yellow Warbler

Ivory-billed Woodpecker

Red-wing

Cliff Swallow

Bay-breasted Warbler

Henslow's Sparrow

Red-Shouldered Hawk

Swallow-tailed Kite

Wood Thrush

Indigo Bunting

Pigeon Hawk

Bob-White

Belted Kingfisher

Carolina Wren

Kingbird

American Pipit

Osprey

Whip-poor-will

House Wren

Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher

Yellow Throated Warbler

Harlan’s Hawk

Florida Jay

Bay-Breasted Warbler

Nashville Warbler

Black & White Warbler

Broad-winged Hawk

Pigeon Hawk

Seaside Sparrow

Vesper Sparrow

Yellow Warbler

Collie’s Magpie-Jay

Screech Owl

Long-billed Marsh Wren

Cowbird

Tree Swallow

Raven

Blue Jay

Canada Warbler

Chipping Sparrow

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Black Vulture

Canada Jay

Fox Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Hooded Warbler

Pileated Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Bluebird

White-crowned Sparrow

Wood Pewee

BrownThrasher

Mississippi Kite

Warbling Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo

Phoebe

Snowy Ow     

Blue Grosbeak

Magnolia Warbler

Wilson’s Warbler

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Bald Eagle

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Catbird

Crested Flycatcher

Grasshopper Sparrow

Robin

Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker

Black-poll Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Meadowlark

Yellow-breasted Chat

Connecticut Warbler

Field Sparrow

Pine Warbler

Goshawk

Sparrow Hawk

Oven-Bird

Acadian Flycatcher                    

Yellow Palm Warbler

Fish Crow

Nighthawk

Black-Throated Blue Warbler

Sharp-tailed Sparrow

Red-eyed Vireo

Turkey Vulture

White-breasted Nuthatch

Myrtle Warbler

Tennessee Warbler

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Crow

Rusty Blackbird

Chimney Swift

Cardinal

Black-capped Chickadee

Audubon’s Caracara

Zenaida Dove

Yellow Palm Warbler

Veery

Bachman’s Sparrow

Rough-legged Hawk

Key west Quail Dove

Fork-tailed Flycatcher

Maynard’s Cuckoo

Gray Kingbird

Barn Owl

Blue-headed Quail Dove

Barn Swallow

Olive sided Flycatcher

Short-billed Marsh Wren

Spotted Grous

White-crowned Pigeon

Orange-crowned Warbler

House Wren

Pine Siskin

Goldon Eagle

Ground Dove

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Black-throated Mango

Bachman's Warbler

Prairie Chicken

Boat-tailed Grackle

Tree Sparrow

Snow Bunting

Yellow bellied Sapsucker

Willow Ptarmigan

Northern Shrike

Lincoln Sparrow

Hudsonian Chickadee

Ruby crowned Kinglet

Gyrfalcon

Red Crossbill

Swainson’s Warbler

Saw-Whet Owl

Horned Lark

Canada Goose

Red-Throated Loon

King Rail

Clapper Rail

Virginia Rail

Wood Duck

White-bellied Booby

Eskimo Curlew

Wilson's Plover

Least Bittern

Great blue Heron

Ring-billed Gull

Atlantic Puffin

Razor Bill Auk

Northern phalarope

Wood Ibiss

Louisiana Heron

Atlantic Murre

Black Guillemot

Piping Plover

Mallard

White Ibis

Oyster-catcher

Kittiwake

Killdeer

Whooping Crane

Pintail

Green winged Teal

Lesser Scaup Duck

Sanderling

Long-billed Curlew

Hooded Merganser

Sora

King-necked Duck

Sooty Tern

Black-crowned Night Heron

Hudsonian Curlew

Marbled Godwit

Coot

Roseate Tern

Great Black Backed Gull

Snowy Egret

Wilson’s Snipe

Florida Gallinule

Brünnich’s Murre

American Eider

White-winged Scoter

Pied-billed Grebe

Tufted Puffin

Arctic Tern

Brown Pelican

Double-crested Cormorant

Pomarine Jaeger

Wilson's Phalarope

Red Phalarope

Redish Egret

Double-crested Cormorant

Hudsonian Godwit

Horned Grebe

Leach’s Petrel

Sandhill Crane

Yellow-billed Tropic Bird

Curlew Sandpiper

Fulmar

Buff breasted Sandpiper

European Cormorant     

Long-tailed Jaeger

American Woodcock

Greenshank

Wilson’s Petrel

Man-o’-War Bird

Parasitic Jaeger

Royal Tern

Willet

Noddy Tern

King Eider

Hutchins's Goose

White-Rumped Sandpiper

Cabot’s Tern

Black Tern

Great White Heron

Iceland Gull

Greater Shearwater

Purple Sandpiper

Sabine’s Gull

White-fronted Goose

Ivory Gull

Lesser Yellow-legs

Solitary Sandpiper

Red backed Sandpiper

Herring Gull

Great Crested Grebe

Horned Puffin

Pectoral Sandpiper

Manks Shearwater

Barnacle Goose

Harlequin Duck

Holboell’s Grebe

Audubon’s Shearwater

Golden Plover

Canvasbacked

Black Duck

Upland Plover

Ruddy Turnstone

Purple Gallinule

Common Loon

Little Blue Heron

Greater Yellow-Legs

Common Tern

Spotted Sandpiper

White Pelican

Old-Squaw

Blue-Winged Teal

Laughing Gull

Knot

Water-Turkey

Surf Scoter

Avocet

Least Tern

Least Sandpiper

Roseate Spoonbill

Redhead

Black Skimmer

Bonapartian Gull

Bufflehead

Gannet

Shoveller

Black-necked stilt

Yellow Rail

Semipalmated Plover

American Merganser

Labrador Duck

Green Heron

Black-bellied Plover

Dowitcher

Yellow-Crowned Night Heron

American Bittern

Bemaculated Duck

Dovekie

Storm Petrel

Great Auk

American Golden-Eye

Ruddy Duck

Stilt Sandpiper

Baldpate

Pacific Loon

Gadwall

Black Rail

Mountain Plover

Great Gray Owl

White-tailed Kite

Chickadees & Bush-tit

Two Tanagers

MacGillivray's Seaside Sparrow

Marsh Hawk

American Magpie

Pine Grosbeak

Three Tyrant Flycatcher

Two Wrens

Dusky Grouse

Four Western Corvids

Bohemian waxwing

White-winged Crossbill

Lapland Longspur

Gyrfalcon

Band-tailed Pigeon

Rock Ptarmigan

Thrasher & Thrush

Dipper

Sage Grouse

Swainson’s Hawk

Two Grosbeaks

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Common Redpoll

Trumpeter Swan

Limpkin

Hawk Owl

Rufous Hummingbird

Richardson’s Owl

Blue & Snow Goose

Sharp-tailed Grous

Long-eared Owl

Dickcissel

Two Swallows

American Egret

Glossy Ibis

Three Icterids

Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

Three Finches

American Brant

Harris’s Hawk

Warbler & Bluebirds

Four Fringillids

Three Western Warblers

Glaucous Gull

Scarlet Ibis

Three Fringillids

Three Warblers

Finches & Tanager

Red-breasted Merganser

Four Alcids

Barrow’s Golden-eye

Eared Grebe

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Trumpeter Swan

American Sooty Albatross

American Scoter

Forster’s & Trudeau's Terns

Gull-billed Tern

Whistling Swan

Two Cormorants

Valley Quail

Two Warblers

Two Dark Feeders

Five Woodpeckers

Two Woodpeckers

Two Ptarmigan

Thrush, Solitaire, and Jay

Bicolored Red-wing

Brown Pelican

Rough-legged Hawk

Two Quail

Fringillids & Icterid

Anna’s Hummingbird

Californian Condor

Oyster-catchers

Surf-bird

Steller’s Eider

Marbled Murrelet

Flamingo

Four Owls

A Feathered Pot-pourri

Flycatchers & Vireo

Dipper