Author:Elliott Ladd Coues

Elliott Ladd Coues
(1842–1899)

Elliott Ladd Coues

Works

• A Field Ornithology (1874);
• Birds of the North-west (1874);
• Coues, Elliott; Allen, Joel Asaph (1877). Monographs on North American Rodentia. Washington: Government Printing Office.  (part of the series Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories (ed. F.V. Hayden); vol. 11. (external scan)
• Coues, Elliott (1877). Fur-bearing animals: a monograph of North American Mustelidae, in which an account of the wolverene, the martens or sables, the ermine, the mink and various other kinds of weasels, several species of skunks, the badger, the land and sea otters, and numerous exotic allies of these animals, is contributed to the history of North American mammals. Washington: Government Printing Office.  (part of the series Miscellaneous Publications; United States Geological Survey of the territories (ed. F.V. Hayden); vol. 8. (external scan)
• Birds of the Colorado Valley (1878)
• A Bibliography of Ornithology (1878–1880, incomplete)
• New England Bird Life (1881)
• A Dictionary and Check List of North American Birds (1882)
• Biogen: A Speculation on the Origin and Nature of Life (1884)
• The Daemon of Darwin (1884)
• The English Sparrow in America, in The House Sparrow (1885)
• Can Matter Think? (1886)
• Neuro-Myology (1887)
• A Woman in the Case (1887)
• 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, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds, (1890) Volume 1 (external scan), Volume 2 (external scan)
• Blavatsky Unveiled! (1890)
• Rural Bird Life of England, with Charles Dixon (1895).
• notes in Audubon and His Journals (1899)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "Imagination" in Popular Science Monthly, 11 (August 1877)

As editor

• Papers presented to the World's Congress on Ornithology (1896, with E. Irene Rood)

Works about Coues

• "Coues, Elliott," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Coues, Elliott," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the First Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona/Acts#20
• review of Coues & Allen 1877 in: James Edmund Harting, ed. (1877). "The Rodents of North America. By Elliott Coues and J.A. Allen; forming Vol. XI. of the Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories.⁠F.V. Hayden, U.S. Geologist-in-charge. 4to, pp. 1100. Washington, 1877". The Zoologist. 3rd series, vol 2 (issue 17, May—section 'Notices of New Books'): 187–188. 
• review of Coues 1877 in: James Edmund Harting, ed. (1877). "The Fur-bearing Animals: a Monograph of the North American Mustelidæ. By Elliott Coues. 8vo, pp. 348.⁠ Washington, 1877.". The Zoologist. 3rd series, vol 2 (issue 17, May—section 'Notices of New Books'): 188–189. 
• Review of Papers presented to the World's congress on ornithology (1896): Distant (ed.), W. L. (1897). "Papers presented to the World's Congress on Ornithology. Edited by Mrs. E. Irene Rood, under the direction of Dr. Elliott Coues". The Zoologist. 4th series, vol 1 (issue 672, June—section 'Notices of New Books'): 280–281. 
• obituary by Frances Fuller Victor, from the Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1900. (and further notes from the same volume of the OHQ)