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• Key to North American birds : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary : illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts (Salem : Naturalists' Agency, 1872., 1872), by Elliott Coues (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on fossil and subfossil birds. (Smithsonian Institution, 1962), by Alexander Wetmore (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Memoirs on the Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand; With an Appendix on Those of England, Australia, Newfoundland, Mauritius, and Rodriguez (2 volumes; London: J. van Voorst, 1879), by Richard Owen
  • Volume I (Text): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Plates): multiple formats at archive.org
• Extinct Birds: An Attempt To Unite in One Volume a Short Account of Those Birds Which Have Become Extinct In Historical Times, That is, Within the Last Six or Seven Hundred Years; To Which are Added a Few Which Still Exist, But Are on the Verge of Extinction (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1907), by Lionel Walter Rothschild (page images at Wisconsin)
• A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palo̲ntology in the British Museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures. (Printed by order of the Trustees [by W. Clowes and sons, limited], 1909), by British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology and Arthur Smith Woodward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) ... (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1896), by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology and Henry Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palæontology in the British museum (Natural history) ... (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1923), by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology and Arthur Smith Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin of birds. (H. F. & G. Witherby, 1926), by Gerhard Heilmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand : with an appendix on those of England, Australia, Newfoundland, Mauritius, and Rodriguez. (J. Van Voorst, 1879), by Richard Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Odontornithes: a monograph of the extinct toothed birds of North America (Government printing office, 1880), by Othniel Charles Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pleistocene birds in Bermuda. (Smithsonian Institution, 1960), by Alexander Wetmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Key to North American birds : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary : illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts (Salem : Naturalists' Agency, 1872., 1872), by Elliott Coues (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the fossil birds in the British Museum (Natural History) ... (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1891), by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology and Richard Lydekker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of British fossil mammals, and birds (J. Van Voorst, 1846), by Richard Owen and John Van Voorst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fuglenes afstamning : med billeder efter tegninger af forfatteren og andre samt fotografier (Særtryk af Dansk ornithologisk forenings tidsskrift, 1916), by Gerhard Heilmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palæontology in the British museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures. (Printed by order of the Trustees [by W. Clowes and sons, limited], 1904), by British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology and Arthur Smith Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to avian palaeontology from the Pacific coast of North America (University of California press, 1912), by Loye Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the archeopteryx of von Meyer : with a description of the fossil remains of a long-tailed species, from the lithographic stone of Solenhofen (Taylor and Francis, 1863), by Richard Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The passerine remains from Rancho La Brea in the paleontological collections of the University of California (University of California press, 1929), by Alden H. Miller and University of California (System) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fossil birds, with especial reference to the birds of Rancho La Brea. (Los Angeles County Museum, 1962), by Hildegarde Howard and Los Angeles County Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• A gigantic "toothed" marine bird from the Miocene of California (Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 1957), by Hildegarde Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Birds of the past in North America (Washington, 1929), by Alexander Wetmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the fossil organic remains of Mammalia and Aves contained in the museum ... (Taylor, 1845), by Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous notes on fossil birds. (Smithsonian Institution, 1958), by Alexander Wetmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annonce de la découverte d'un oiseau fossile de taille gigantesque, trouvé à la partie inférieure de l'argile plastique des terrains parisiens ([Paris] : [Académie des Sciences], [1855], 1855), by Constant Prévost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice of the remains of the Dinornis, and other birds, and of fossils and rock-specimens, ... in the middle island of New Zealand. (1850), by Gideon Algernon Mantell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Synopsis of the extinct batrachia and reptilia of North America. (McCalla & Stavely, printers, 1869), by E. D. Cope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fossile flugtiere und erwerb des flugvermögens (K. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1908), by Wilhelm Branca (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les oiseaux des phosphorites du Quercy (A. Rey; [etc., etc.], 1908), by Claude Gaillard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On remains of Struthiolithus chersonensis from northern China, with remarks on the distribution of struthious birds (1898), by Charles Rochester Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Birds with teeth. ([s.n.], 1883), by Othniel Charles Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description de deux oiseaux nouveaux du gypse parisien (Librairie polytechnique Baudry et cie [etc.], 1891), by Léon Flot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur les oiseaux fossiles des terrains tertiaires inférieurs des environs de Reims (Impr. F. Keller :, 1878), by Victor Lemoine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the osteology and relationship of the fossil birds of the genera Hesperornis Hargeria Baptornis and Diatryma (1903), by Frederic A. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tertiäre Vogelreste von Regensburg und die jungmiocäne Vogelwelt. (F. Straub, 1918), by Ludwig von Ammon and Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein Regensburg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The avifauna of Emeryville shellmound. (1928), by Hildegarde Howard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Om huler i Kalksteen, i det indre of Brasilien : der tildeels indeholde fossile knokler (Poppske, 1836), by Peter Wilhelm Lund and Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarques sur les oiseaux fossiles. (Imprimerie de Poussielgue, 1844), by Paul Gervais (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fossil birds from the Alachua clay of Florida (Florida Geological Survey, 1963), by Pierce Brodkorb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The avifauna of the Bone Valley formation (Tallahassee, 1955), by Pierce Brodkorb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Index to the fossil remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the secondary system of strata arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge (Deighton, Bell, and co., 1869), by Sedgwick Museum, Adam Sedgwick, and H. G. Seeley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cretaceous birds of New Jersey, by Storrs L. Olson and David C. Parris (Gutenberg ebook)

• Aves. (W. Junk, 1921), by Kálmán Lambrecht (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Description of a fossil passerine bird from the insect-bearing shales of Colorado. (Wash., 1878), by J. A. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fossil birds : from the forthcoming "Dictionary of Birds" : delivered before the Second International Ornithological Congress on the 18 May, 1891 (Office of the Congress, 1891), by Alfred Newton and Hungarian Committee of [the] Second International Ornithological Congress in Budapest (page images at HathiTrust)

• A fossil egg from South Dakota / Fieldiana, Geology, Vol.1, No.5 (Field Columbian Museum , 1899), by Oliver C. Farrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• An egg of Struthiolithus chersonensis Brandt. (The University library: published by the librarian, 1921), by B. A. Bensley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annonce de la découverte d'un oiseau fossile de taille gigantesque, trouvé à la partie inférieure de l'argile plastique des terrains parisiens ([Paris] : [Académie des Sciences], [1855], 1855), by Constant Prévost (page images at HathiTrust)

• The moa-hunters of New Zealand : sportsmen of the Stone Age (AMS Press, 1977), by Thomas Lindsay Buick (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Megalapteryx hectori, a new gigantic species of apterygian bird. (1886), by Julius von Haast (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Dinornis, an extinct genus of tridactyle struthious birds. (Zoological Society of London, 1844), by Richard Owen (page images at HathiTrust)

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