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Amniotes

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• Reptiles

• Amniota

• 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 Fossil History of Southern African Land Mammals (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), by D. Margaret Avery (PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• Holocene Records of Nebraska Mammals (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2021), by Hugh H. Genoways (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• The Felidae of Rancho La Brea (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #422; 1932), by John C. Merriam and Chester Stock (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Review of the Archaeoceti (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #482; 1936), by Remington Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Systematics, Functional Morphology and Macroevolution of the Extinct Mammalian Order Taeniodonta (Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History #42; 1986), by Robert M. Schoch
  • PDF at Yale; 111 MB
  • multiple formats at biodiversitylibrary.org

• Marine Mammals (Contributions to Palaeontology; Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #447; 1934), by Earl L. Packard, Remington Kellogg, and Ernst Huber (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Review of the Middle and Upper Eocene Primates of North America (Smithsonian Miscellanous Collections v136 #1; 1958), by C. Lewis Gazin
  • PDF at Smithsonian
  • bound with another article: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• On Recently Discovered Subfossil Primates from Madagascar (extract from Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 1908), by Herbert F. Standing, contrib. by Grafton Elliot Smith
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • as originally published in its journal: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Lenape Stone: or, The Indian and the Mammoth (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885), by Henry C. Mercer
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man (Cincinnati: Williamson and Cantwell Pub. Co., 1878), by J. P. MacLean (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Frozen in Time: The Woolly Mammoth, the Ice Age, and the Bible (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2006), by Michael J. Oard (illustrated HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)

• Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man (Cincinnati: Williamson and Cantwell Pub. Co., 1878), by J. P. MacLean (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Study of the Phytosaurs, With Description of New Material from Western North America (Memoirs of the University of California v10; 1930), by Charles Lewis Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Ichthyosaurier des Lias und ihre Zusammenhänge (in German; Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1922), by Friedrich R. Huene (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (second edition; New York et al.: Pub. for the American Museum of Natural History by McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1951), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (second edition; New York et al.: Pub. for the American Museum of Natural History by McGraw-Hill, 1951), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (Man and Nature Publications handbook #14; New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1945), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Osteology of the Reptiles (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1925), by Samuel Wendell Williston, ed. by William K. Gregory
  • illustrated HTML at Wikisource
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Gallery of Dinosaurs and Other Early Reptiles (with descriptions of other books; c1989), by David Peters (PDF files with commentary at davidpetersstudio.com)

• Water Reptiles of the Past and Present (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1914), by Samuel Wendell Williston
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dinosaurs of Canada (Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, c1965), by W. E. Swinton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (second edition; New York et al.: Pub. for the American Museum of Natural History by McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1951), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (second edition; New York et al.: Pub. for the American Museum of Natural History by McGraw-Hill, 1951), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dinosaurs (Science Guide #70; New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1947), by Edwin H. Colbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (Man and Nature Publications handbook #14; New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1945), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dinosaur Hunting in Western Canada (Royal Ontario Museum Life sciences contribution #70, c1966), by Loris S. Russell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dinosaurs of North America (extract from the 16th annual report of the U.S. Geological Survey, ca. 1895), by Othniel Charles Marsh (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Dinosaur Mistake, by Kelly L. Segraves (HTML at parentcompany.com)

• The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (London: W. Pickering, 1840), by Thomas Hawkins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated transcription: PDF at Wayback Machine
• Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth (London: Rolfe and Fletcher, 1834), by Thomas Hawkins (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Die Ichthyosaurier des Lias und ihre Zusammenhänge (in German; Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1922), by Friedrich R. Huene (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pacific Coast Avifauna (partial serial archives)
• Audubon and His Journals (2 volumes; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by John James Audubon, ed. by Maria R. Audubon, contrib. by Elliott Coues
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Beautiful Birds in Far-Off Lands: Their Haunts and Homes (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1873), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• The Bird (New York: T. Nelson and sons, 1869), by Jules Michelet, contrib. by Hector Giacomelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bird Courtship, and Other Papers, by John Burroughs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Bird Neighbors, by Neltje Blanchan (Gutenberg text)
• Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• Birds Through an Opera Glass (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1889), by Florence Merriam Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Birds Through an Opera-Glass (Cleveland et al.: The Chautauqua Press, c1889), by Florence Merriam Bailey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Friends in Feathers (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and company, 1917), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Homing With the Birds: The History of a Lifetime of Personal Experience With the Birds (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1919), by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Homing With the Birds: The History of a Lifetime of Personal Experience With the Birds (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at Indiana)
• What I Have Done With Birds (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1907), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wild Nature's Ways (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1909), by Richard Kearton, illust. by Cherry Kearton and Richard Kearton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology (London: Lonman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838), by Charles Waterton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Wild Life Near Home (New York: The Century Co., 1901), by Dallas Lore Sharp, illust. by R. Bruce Horsfall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Type Specimens of Reptiles and Amphibians in the U.S. National Museum (United States National Museum bulletin #220; 1961), by Doris M. Cochran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures With Reptiles: The Story of Ross Allen (New York: J. Messner, c1951), by Clarence J. Hylander (page images at HathiTrust)

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