Works
Ridgway published a number of papers dealing with the woody plants of his region. Ridgway was the joint author (with Thomas Mayo Brewer and Spencer Fullerton Baird) of History of North American Birds (Boston, 1875–1884; Land Birds, 3 vols., Water Birds, 2 vols). He also authored several other books and monographs, and had a total of more than 450 articles and publications to his credit. In 1912 he self-published a major work on color nomenclature, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature. His largest work, on bird systematics, was the monumental 6,000-page The Birds of North and Middle America, published by the Smithsonian in eleven volumes between 1901 and 1950. Ridgway finished the first eight before his death, leaving Herbert Friedmann of the Smithsonian to complete the final three volumes. In 1919 he was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.
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