Todd, W. E. C. and M. A. Carriker
The birds of the Santa Marta region of Colombia: a study in altitudinal distribution. [Original edition, bound copy].
Washington, DC, Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Museum, 1922. 8vo (24.0 x 15.6 cm). viii, 611 pp.; nine plates (of which six in full colour, showing birds; and one being a folded coloured map), nine text figures. Contemporary gilt-bordered half calf over grained cloth boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-bordered bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.
A very uncommon, well-illustrated monograph on the birds of Colombia, South America, in particular in the neighbourhood of Santa Marta (Caribbean Coast) and the snowclad Sierra Nevada mountains, which are well-separated from the Andes and are the second highest coastal range in the world, with a huge diversity of climates and habitats. Written by the American ornithologists Walter Edmond Clyde Todd (1874-1969) and Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr (1879-1965), and with a preface by Director of the Carnegie Museum, the entomologist and palaeontologist William Jacob Holland (1848-1932). Carriker was also an expert in Mallophaga. One new subspecies is introduced. Binding worn at edges, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Modern reprints are no match. Cat. BM(NH) Supplement, p. 1313. Neither in Nissen IVB, nor in Zimmer.