RAPTORIAL BIRDS OF IOWA: Iowa Geological Survey--Bulletin 6

by Bailey, Bert Heald; Spencer, Clementina, ed

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Des Moines:: Iowa Geological Survey,, 1918. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends lightly worn; contents good.. + index. Profuse in-text drawings & full-pg. b&w photos. Letter of Transmittal, Editor's Preface, & four preliminary pages (with portrait) eulogize 42-year-old Dr. Bailey (1875-1917), physician, zoologist, teacher, curator of Iowa's Coe College Museum (renamed Bert Heald Bailey Museum). ||| `Aim of this work is to convince the people of Iowa that our Hawks & Owls are a positive asset rather than a liability to the agricultural interests of the State' by helping to control rodents that otherwise do enormous damage to crops. ||| Covers-- suborders of vultures, falcons, hawks, buzzards, eagles, kites, harriers, owls, etc.--their descriptions, measurements, ranges, etc.