Richard Bowdler Sharpe

Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909), English zoologist.

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Sharpe, R.B. 1868. A monograph of the Alcenidæ: or, family of kingfishers. London, England: J. W. Eliot. BHL Reference page.

Sharpe, R.B. 1876. Prof. Steere's expedition to the Philippines. Nature 14:276. BHL

Sharpe, R.B. 1871. Catalogue of African Birds in the Collection of R.B. Sharpe. R.B. Sharpe, London. 76 pp. BHL Reference page.
Sharpe, R.B. 1871. Descriptions of Two new Species of African Birds. Ibis. 1(1): 100–102. BHL DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1871.tb05827.x Reference page.
Sharpe, R.B. 1871. On the Coraciidæ of the Ethiopian Region. Ibis 1(2): 184–203, 270–289. BHL DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1871.tb05834.x Reference page.

Sharpe, R.B. 1874. Catalogue of the Accipitres, or diurnal birds of prey, in the collection of the British Museum. London. PDF Reference page.

Sharpe, R.B. 1877. Contributions to the Ornithology of Borneo. Part II. Ibis (4)1: 1–25.
Sharpe, R.B. 1877. On the Birds collected by Professor J. B. Steere in the Philippine Archipelago. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London: Zoology. 2. 1(16): 307–355, plates XLVI.–LIV. BHL Reference page.
Sharpe, R.B. 1877. Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds, in the Collection of the British Museum. Coliomorphae: Containing the Families Corvidae, Paradiseidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae and Prionopidae. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum. 3: i–xiii; 1–344; pl. 1–14. BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.8233 Reference page.

Sharpe, R.B. 1879. Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds, in the Collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae: Part I. Containing the Families Campophagidae and Muscicapidae. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum. 4: i–xvi; 1–494; pl. 1–12. BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.8233 Reference page.

Sharpe, R.B. 1882. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. VI: i–xiii, 1–421 (1881). London. BHL
Sharpe, R.B., 1882. On a new Species of Sand-Martin (Cotile) from Madagascar. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 16: 322–323 BHL Reference page.

Sharpe, R.B. 1885. Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds, in the Collection of the British Museum. Fringilliformes: Part I. Containing the Families Dicaeidae, Hirundinidae, Ampelidae, Mniotiltidae and Motacillidae. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum. 10: i–xiv; 1–706. London: Taylor & Francis. BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.8233Reference page.

Sharpe, R.B. (1887). 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. Ibis (5) 5 (20): 435–454, plates XIII–XIV. BHL DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1887.tb06626.x Reference page.

Sharpe, R.B. 1888. On a new Species of Elainea from the Island of Fernando Noronha. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Pt. 1: p.107 BHL Reference page.
Sharpe, R.B. 1888. Descriptions of some new species of birds from the Island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Archipelago, discovered by Mr. C. M. Woodford. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 56 (1): 182–185. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1888.tb06692.x BHL Reference page.
Sharpe, R.B. 1888. Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds, in the Collection of the British Museum. Fringilliformes: Part III. Containing the Family Fringillidae. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum. 12: i–xv; 1–871; pl. I–XVI. London: Taylor & Francis. BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.8233Reference page.

Sharpe, R.B. 1891. A review of recent attempts to classify birds; an address delivered before the Second International Ornithological Congress on the 18th of May, 1891. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.13335 BHL Reference page.

Sharpe, R.B. 1892. On the birds collected by Mr. F. J. Jackson, F.Z.S., during his recent expedition to Uganda through the Territory of the Imperial British East-African Company. - Part IV. Ibis [34(2) =] (ser. 6) 4: 299–322. BHL DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1892.tb00303.x Reference page.

Sharpe, R.B. 1899. Exhibition of a series of specimens form the New Hebrides group of islands, procured by Capt. A.M. Farquhar, of H.M.S. Wallaroo, and recently presented by him to the British Museum. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 10(45): 28–29 BHL Reference page.