Varied thrush or Alaska robin
- Title
- Varied thrush or Alaska robin
- LC Subject
- Thrushes Woodpeckers
- Repository
- Oregon State University. Libraries
- Creator
- Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
- Description
- Document that contains two manuscripts. The first is on the subject of the Varied Thrush (also known as the Alaska or Oregon Robin). John Burroughs wrote a poem about the peculiar bird after his first sighting in Alaska. The second manuscript focuses on the black woodpecker. Captain Lewis of Lewis and Clark fame, authored the first known record of the bird. At Lewis's request, Alexander Wilson created a colored drawing of the bird.
- Work Type
- manuscripts (documents) typescripts
- Date
- 1930/1939
- Identifier
- mssfinley_series01_box02_folder04_58
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- William L. Finley Papers, 1899-1946 (MSS Finley)
- Type
- Text
- Format
- application/pdf
- Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center Reuniting Finley and Bohlman
- Primary Set
- Reuniting Finley and Bohlman
- Is Part Of
- Series 1: Manuscripts; Box 2, folder 7: Manuscripts: Typescripts, circa 1930s
- Institution
- Oregon State University
