History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory, Vol. 1: Including Their Organization, Habits, and Relations; Rasores, Scrapers, or Gallinaceous ... or Conirostral Birds (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Macgillivray, William

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ISBN 10: 1334722714 ISBN 13: 9781334722714

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory, Vol. 1: Including Their Organization, Habits, and Relations; Rasores, Scrapers, or Gallinaceous Birds, Gemitores, Cooers, or Pigeons, Deglubitores, Huskers, or Conirostral Birds

It is unnecessary to present a catalogue of books that have been consulted, as they are all repeatedly referred to in the course of the descriptions but it may be preper here to men tion the names of those individuals who have afforded me aid in my researches.

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Excerpt from History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory, Vol. 1: Including Their Organization, Habits, and Relations; Rasores, Scrapers, or Gallinaceous Birds, Gemitores, Cooers, or Pigeons, Deglubitores, Huskers, or Conirostral Birds

The object which I had in view, when, many years ago, I commenced the observations recorded in this work, was at some convenient season to lay before the public Descriptions of the Birds of Great Britain, more extended, and, if possible, more correct, than any previously offered. To accomplish so ambitious a purpose, I judged it necessary to direct my attention to the living objects themselves, rather than to their skins in collections, or their portraits in books, to follow them in their haunts, observe their manners, procure unmutilated specimens, carefully examine all their parts, and thus be enabled to bring forward facts that had been entirely overlooked, and place others in a light in which they had not previously been viewed. Short specific characters, slight descriptions or notices, and measurements of parts, I could easily have obtained by visit ing museums and consulting books; but the elaboration of a detailed account of the species, such as is to be found in the following pages, could obviously be accomplished only by much labour of a different kind.

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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: 1334722714
• ISBN 13: 9781334722714
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 676