Richter and Gould's Hummingbirds

This edition is focused on the works of John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter. Richter created over a thousand color plates for John Gould. You will find that the plates included herein are attributed to both Gould and Richter.

The sources for this edition are form the volumes of A monograph of the Trochilidæ, or family of humming-birds (volumes 1-5) and a supplement that was completed after Gould’s death by R. Bowdler Sharpe.

A few notes about John Gould from An Analytical Index to the Wo...