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• I Manoscritti di Leonardo da Vinci: Codice Sul Volo Degli Uccelli e Varie Altre Materie (from a MS in Windsor Castle Royal Library, with notes, in Italian and French; Paris: E. Rouveyre, 1893), by Leonardo da Vinci, ed. by Giovanni Piumati, trans. by Charles Ravaisson-Mollien, contrib. by Teodoro Sabachnikoff
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• Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation: A Contribution Towards a System of Aviation, Compiled from the Results of Numerous Experiments Made by O. and G. Lilienthal (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911), by Otto Lilienthal, trans. by A. W. Isenthal, contrib. by Gustav Lilienthal
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• Die Flugbewegung der Vögel. (F. Deuticke, 1895), by Karl Milla (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physiologie du mouvement. vol des oiseaux (G. Masson, 1890), by Etienne-Jules Marey and Everett Mendelsohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die Zugstrassen der Vögel (W. Engelmann, 1876), by Johan Axel Palmén (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchungen über den flug der vögel. (C. Gerold, 1846), by Johann Joseph Prechtl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impacts of transmission lines on birds in flight : proceedings of a workshop, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 31 January-2 February 1978 (Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service :, 1978), by Michael L Avery and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Luftwiderstands-gesetze der Fall durch die Luft und der Vogelflug; mathematisch-mechanische Klärung. (Hölder, 1896), by Friedrich ritter von Loessl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations sur le vol des oiseaux de proie (Chez Paul Barde ..., 1784), by François Huber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flight speed of birds (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1937), by May Thacher Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die mechanik des Vogelflugs. (J.F. Bergmann, 1889), by August von Parseval (page images at HathiTrust)

• Impacts of transmission lines on birds in flight : proceedings of a conference, January 31-February 2, 1978, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (Oak Ridge Associated Universities ;, 1978), by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Oak Ridge Associated Universities (page images at HathiTrust)

• Little Robins Learning to Fly, by Madeline Leslie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stories from lowly life (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898), by C. M Duppa, illust. by Louis Wain (page images at Florida)

• Der Vogelflug: Erklärung der wichtigstenFlugarten der Vögel mit Einschluss des Segelns und Kreisens (Theodor Ackermann, 1895), by Wilhelm Winter (page images at HathiTrust)

• The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the County of Warwick, Esq., fellow of the Royal Society : in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known being reduced into a method sutable [sic] to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVIII copper plates (Printed by A.C. for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1678), by Francis Willughby, John Farrington, William Sherwin, William Faithorne, Frederick Hendrick van Hove, Francisco Hernández, John Martyn, Andrew Clark, John Ray, and Thordarson Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des oiseaux (de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1770), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon and Imprimerie Royale (París) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : tome huitième (de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1781), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, Rey de Francia Luis XIV, Baron, De Seve, Imprimerie Royale (París), and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : tome neuviéme (De l'Imprimerie Royal, 1783), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, De Seve, and Imprimerie Royale (París) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : tome huitième (de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1783), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, Rey de Francia Luis XIV, Le Villain, De Seve, Imprimerie Royale (París), and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art de faire eclorre et d'eleuer en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes especes, soit par le moyen de la chaleur du fumier, soit par le moyen de celle du feu ordinaire (de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1749), by René Antoine de Reaumur, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Imprimerie Royale (Paris) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art de faire eclorre et d'eleuer en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes especes, soit par le moyen de la chaleur du fumier, soit par le moyen de celle du feu ordinaire (de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1751), by René Antoine de Reaumur, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Imprimerie Royale (Paris) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pratique de l'art eclorre et d'elever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes especes, soit par le moyen de la chaleur ... (de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1751), by René Antoine de Reaumur, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Imprimerie Royale (Paris) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : tome neuviéme (suivant la copie in-4º, de l'Imprimerie Royal, 1779), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, De Seve, and Imprimerie Royale (París) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : tome septième (suivant la copie in-4º, de l'Imprimerie Royal, 1779), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, De Seve, and Imprimerie Royale (París) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : tome troisième (de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1772), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon and Imprimerie Royale (París) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : tome cinquième (de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1775), by Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard, Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, and Imprimerie Royale (París) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : tome huitième (suivant la copie in-4º de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1779), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, Magd. Th Rousselet, Catherine Haussard, De Seve, Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard, and Imprimerie Royale (París) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : tome second (de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1770), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon and Imprimerie Royale (París) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : tome quatrième (de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1772), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon and Imprimerie Royale (París) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delle uova e dei nidi degli uccelli (appresso Antonio Bortoli, 1737), by Giuseppe Ginanni, Antonio Bortoli, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naturgeschichte der Land- und Wasser-Vögel des nördlichen Deutschlands und angränzender Länder : nach eignen Erfahrungen entworfen, und nach dem Leben gezeichnet (J.A. Aue, 1797), by Johann Andreas Naumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natural history of birds. (printed for F. Newbery, the corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, Ludgate-Street, 1775), by Samuel Ward and Francis Newbery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Synopsis methodica avium & piscium (Londini : Impensis Gulielmi Innys, MDCCXIII [1713], 1713), by John Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• I. Jonstons Naeukeurige beschryving van de natuur der vier-voetige dieren, vissen en bloedlooze water-dieren, vogelen, kronkel-dieren, slangen en draken (Bij I.I. Schipper, 1660), by Joannes Jonstonus and M. Grausius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bāz-nāmah (1817), by active 17th century Muḥammad Riẓā ibn Muḥammad Yūsuf and Casey A. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nuzhat-nāmah-yi ʻAlāʼī. (1404), by active 11th century Shahmardān ibn Abī al-Khayr, Casey A. Wood, known as Ṣāyigh al-Shīrāzī al-Murshidī 'Ali ibn Maḥmūd, and of Tabaristan ʻAlāʼ al-Dawlah (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farrukh-nāmah-i Jamālī. (1201), by Abū Bakr Muṭahhar Jamālī Yazdī, Casey A. Wood, and 'Alī Ramaḍān Valī Quṭb al-Dīn 'Alī mash'hūr bi Naqīb Arbāb Ṭarīq-i Fārs 899 [1493] (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq, fellow of the Royal Society in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates : translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work : to which are added, Three considerable discourses, I. of the art of fowling, with a description of several nets in two large copper plates, II. of the ordering of singing birds, III. of falconry / by John Ray ... (London : Printed by A.C. for John Martyn ..., 1678), by John Ray and Francis Willughby (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Discorso della natura, e proprieta di diuersi vccelli (Appresso M. Angelo de Rossi, 1684), by Giovanni Pietro Olina, Michel' Angelo de Rossi, Antonio Valli, Vincenzo Leonardi, Francesco Villamena, Antonio Tempesta, and Cassiano Dal Pozzo (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traité de la miniature (s.n.], 1725), by Catherine Perrot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le description philosophale de la nature & condition des oyseaux & de l'inclination & proprieté d'iceux. (A Paris : Par Iean Ruelle, rue S. Iaques à l'ens. S. Hieros., 1571., 1571), by Jean Ruelle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Synopsis methodica avium & piscium (Londini : Impensis Gulielmi Innys, MDCCXIII [1713], 1713), by John Ray (page images at HathiTrust)

• Faulcons lure, and cure. (Printed at London : [By John Beale] for Roger Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-street Conduit, 1614), by Simon Latham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lathams falconry. Book 2 (At London : Printed by I.B. for Roger Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-Conduit, 1618), by Simon Latham (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Scenes from the Birds of Aristophanes (Cambridge University Press, 1926), by Aristophanes and Wilfrid H. Oldaker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Theatrum universale omnium animalium, piscium, avium, quadrupedum, exanguium, aquaticorum, insectorum et angium : CCLX tabulis ornatum ex scriptoribus tam antiquis quam recentioribus Aristoteles, Theophrasto, Dioscoride ... & aliis maxima curâ à J. Jonstonio collectum ac plus quam trecentis piscibus nuperrime ex Indiis Orientalibus allatis ... (prostat apud R. & G. Wetstenios, 1718), by Hendrik Ruysch, J. Wandelaar, Jan Jonston, Gerhard Wetstein, Rudolf Wetstein, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Natural history of Newfoundland [manuscript] (1766), by Joseph Banks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Esemplare di alfabeti diversi fregiati di fiori, di animali e di altri ornati : dedicato a S. E. il signor d. Nicola Caracciolo, principe di Castagneto (s.n., 1830), by Gabriele De Sanctis, Filippo Fergola, Antonio Rossi, and Nicola Riccio (page images at HathiTrust)

• A comparyson bytwene. iiij. byrdes, the larke, the nyghtyngale, ye thrusshe [and] the cuko, for theyr syngynge who shuld be chauntoure of the quere ([Canterbury : Printed by John Mychell, 1533-34?]), by Robert Saltwood (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The embassadour of peace, being a strange and wonderful relation of a white dove seated on a rain-bow. That appears to several persons, in the parish of Peter's Carlile; particularly to Mrs. Isabel Fletcher, (wife to Mr. Fletcher, apothecary.) To whom it relates strange and wonderful things, concerning the state of affairs in this nation; very positively asserting universal peace and plenty to all Christendom, the ensuing year 1697. Proving the subversion of the French king, from several texts of scripture; especially from the last verse of the 31st psalm. To which is added, its disputes with several ministers; as also its pious prayers and exhortations to all the people that dayly far and near flock to see it. The truth of all which, is confirm'd by the testimony of two letters, the one sent to the Reverend Dr. Simpson, and the other writ by the worshipful Justice Patrickson. ([Edinburgh, : Re-printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson ..., 1696]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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