A Monograph of the Pittidae, or Family of Ant Thrushes (first edition) Wied spent the rest of

Wied spent the rest of his career studying his North American collections

Image is of two African cormorants or reed cormorant (Microcarbo africanus)

and some line-drawings by Goode

index of English and scientific names

illustrations in text with some full page

A Monograph of the Pittidae, or Family of Ant Thrushes (first edition) Wied spent the rest ofPp. 1p: dedication to Philip Lutley Sclater, 1p: list of subscribers, 2p: preface, 14p: introduction, and with 31 fine hand colored lithographic plates, heightened with gum arabic (24 plates are signed by Elliot, 4 plates by Paul Louis Oudart, 1 plate is by E. Maubert, 1 plate is by Mesnel, 1 plate is unsigned). Each plate is accompanied by 2 3 pages of descriptive text. Bound in later one half green morocco leather over the original marbled boards