Field-Studies of Some Rarer British Birds (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Walpole-Bond, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332234038 ISBN 13: 9781332234035

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Field-Studies of Some Rarer British Birds

To many friends I am deeply indebted for various kindnesses, much help and valuable information.

Specially do I wish to thank the Rev. John Bond, Messrs. Edward Bond and A. H. Bikker, Major Clayton Beauchamp (late South Wales Borderers), Messrs. J. I. C. Boger, C. W. Buckwell, C. J. Carroll, S. V. Clark, P. Gough, A. Gwynne Vaughan, J. D. Grafton-wignall (82nd Punjabis), N. Gilroy, A. Jones, H. Massey, D. H. And C. S. Meares, R. J. Messent and W. Morgan, the Rev. D. E. Owen, Messrs. W. E. Renaut, Morris Rigby, P. B. Smythe, and John, Brinsley and Leonard Sheridan, Major Sparrow (7th Dragoon Guards), Colonel Evan Thomas (late 7th Dragoon Guards), Messrs. B. D. Wenham, Gwynne Witherington, and J. Williams-vaughan, and last but not least Mr. H. F. Witherby, who, himself a keen and first-rate ornithologist, has bestowed much care and kindly attention on this book in all its various stages.

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Excerpt from Field-Studies of Some Rarer British Birds

To-day we live with nature, and books on British birds are very numerous, perhaps too numerous, since many of them are but a repetition - and often a bad repetition - of their forbears. Possibly, therefore, the sole merit of these essays rests on the fact that practically all the matter contained in them comes from long, personal observation and research. They may, indeed, be described as "Field-Studies of Some Rarer British Birds." Most of the species selected are really scarce, or, at any rate, extremely local; while one or two - notably the Kite - are very rare indeed. All the same, even by some ornithologists proper as opposed to the casual nature-lover, most rare birds are considered rarer than they are in reality. Of these the Chough affords one good example, the Raven another, the Peregrine a third, the Buzzard a fourth, the Golden Eagle a fifth, and so on.

A long Preface is out of place, so I will merely add that, wherever those dangerous adverbs "always" and "never" occur, they apply to personal observation only.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1332234038
• ISBN 13: 9781332234035
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322