NOTES ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE REGION ABOUT THE SOURCE OF THE RED RIVER OF TEXAS, FROM OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING THE EXPLORATIONS CONDUCTED BY LIEUT. E. H. RUFFNER, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U.S.A., and NOTES ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE LOWER RIO GRANDE OF TEXAS, FROM OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING THE SEASON OF 1877 (two bound articles)

[1870s THOMAS PARKIN SIGNED BRITISH ORNITHOLOGIST IN TEXAS 2 bound articles] THOMAS PARKIN ASSOCIATION, noted British ornithologist, signed item concerning his time in Galveston, Texas, observing birds near the Texas shore, Parkin ownership signatures and notes on front endpages of two bound pamphlets, Thomas Parkin ownership signature and notes in pen on front pages, (on a blank front endpage) "Thomas Parkin, Annuach [sic, for Anahuac], Chambers, Co[ounty], Texas (area that is today Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, established 1963), (on facing page, blank front endpage), " I was up the Galveston River in January and February 1879, T. P." Thomas Parkin bookplate inside front cover, two bound pamphlets, 5-3/4" x 9", half-leather with marbled boards, (1) ART[ICLE] XXVI — NOTES ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE REGION ABOUT THE SOURCE OF THE RED RIVER OF TEXAS, FROM OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING THE EXPLORATIONS CONDUCTED BY LIEUT. E. H. RUFFNER, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U.S.A., by C. A. H. McCauley, Annotated by Dr. Elliot Cours, U.S.A., pages 655-95, (2) ART[ICLE] I — NOTES ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE LOWER RIO GRANDE OF TEXAS, FROM OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING THE SEASON OF 1877, by George B. Sennett, of Erie, Pa., Edited, annotations by Dr. Elliot Cours, U.S.A., pages 1-66,, articles disbound and rebound together with leather spine and marbled boards binding from 1870's volumes of U. S. Geological Survey, by W. B. Bull, gilded title on spine NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TEXAS,…ONE-OF-A-KIND ITEM, RARE THOMAS PARKIN SIGNATURE /// NOTES: THOMAS PARKIN, 1845-1932, Parkin travelled extensively in 1887 to Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania via the Cape of Good Hope collecting seabirds en route. He returned via Cape Horn. The seabirds were given to the British Museum. He also collected in Southern Spain and in the southern states of the USA and made trips to North Africa, living briefly in Paris. (Cambridge U. archive note); CONDITION: very good or better, normal light wear, Parkin handwriting clear and fully legible, small ink blot near "Texas" in one signature.