Author:Richard Bowdler Sharpe

Richard Bowdler Sharpe
(1847–1909)

Richard Bowdler Sharpe

Works

Ornithology

• Catalogue of the Accipitres, or diurnal birds of prey, in the collection of the British Museum (1874)
• Catalogue of the Striges, or nocturnal birds of prey, in the collection of the British museum (1875)
• The Birds of South Africa, by Edgar Leopold Layard (first ed. 1867), 2nd ed. 1875 revised by Bowdler Sharpe. (external scan)
• Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum (1877)
• A monograph of the Hirundinidae (1894)
• A Monograph of The Alcedinidae, or Family of Kingfishers (1868–1871)
• An Analytical Index to the Works of the Late John Gould (1893)
• Catalogue of the Picariae in the collection of the British museum (1892)
• Catalogue of the Fulicariae … and Alectorides … in the collection of the British museum (1894)
• A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain. London: W.H. Allen & Co., Ltd. 1894–1897.  (external scan) (in four volumes: 1894–1897)
• Catalogue of the Limicolae in the collection of the British museum (1896)
• Lydekker, R; Bowdler Sharpe, R.; Kirby, F.; Garstang, W.; Woodward, B.B.; Bather, F.A.; Kirkpatrick, R.; Pocock, R.I.; Bernard, M.H. (1897). Alfred H. Miles, ed. Natural History. London: Hutchinson & Co.  also titled The Concise Knowledge Natural History (external scan) (also published in New York : D. Appleton & Cy., Concise Knowledge Library (external scan))
• Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae, and Impennes in the collection of the British museum (1898)
• Sketch Book of British Birds. (1898) (external scan)

Articles

• "Descriptions of Two new Species of African Birds", 1871, Ibis. 1(1): 100–102. BHL ; Q90406255
• "Notes on a collection of birds made by Mr. John Whitehead on the Mountain of Kina Balu, in Northern Borneo, with descriptions of new species", 1887, Ibis (5)5: 435–454.

Contributions to Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

• On Apteryx bulleri (1888)

Works about Sharpe

• "Sharpe, Richard Bowdler," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
• review of Layard 1875 (rev. Sharpe) in The Zoologist, 3rd series vol 1 (1877), issue 8, August, p. 350–351
• review of Sharpe 1894–1897 in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 1 (1897), issue 677, November, pp. 523–525