Spencer Fullerton Baird (2)
Birds of Southwest US

The hand-colored lithographic plates below are cut from History of North American Birds, the great ornithological treatise by Spencer F. Baird, Thomas Brewer, and Robert Ridgway, first published in 1874 with black-and-white plates and then in 1875 with 101 hand-colored plates.   (See also Robert Ridgway, John Cassin & William H. Emory ).