Download or read book British Land Birds Classic Reprint written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Land Birds The domestic fowl is of Indian origin. Our original breed has multiplied into numerous varieties, and great, indeed, is the extent to Which the passion for rearing them has been carried, as has been seen in the exhibitions of the cochin-china and other breeds. At what period, or how, the fowlwas introduced into the British isles, it is now impossible to ascertain; but it must have been very early, since it was arnong the things forbidden by the Druids as food. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book History of British Birds Vol 1 written by Thomas Bewick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of British Birds, Vol. 1: Containing the History and Description of Land Birds As far as we could, consistently with the plan laid down in the following work, we have consulted, and we trust with some advantage, the works of Willoughby, Ray, and other naturalists. In the arrangement of the various classes, as well as in the descriptive part, we have taken as guides our intelligent and indefatigable countrymen, Pennant and Lathamf'f to whose elegant and useful labours the world is indebted for a fund of the most rational entertainment, and who will be remembered by every lover of Nature as long as her works have power to charm. The communications with which we have been favoured by those gentlemen who wefe so good as to notice our growing work, have been generally acknowledged, each in its proper place; it remains only that we be permitted to insert this testimony of our grateful sense of them. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book History of British Birds Vol 1 written by Thomas Bewick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of British Birds, Vol. 1: The Figures Engraved on Wood; Containing the History and Description of Land Birds As far as we could, confrftently with the plan'laid down in the following work, we have confulted, and we trult with fome advantage, the works of thefe and other Naturalifts. In the arrangement of the various claffes, as well as in the defcriptive part, we have taken as our guide our ingenious countryman, Mr Pennant, to whofe elegant and ufeful labours the world is in debted for a fund of the molt rational entertainment, and who will be remembered by every lover of Nature as long as her works have power to charm. The communications with which we have been favoured by thofe gentlemen who were fo good as to notice our growing work, have been generally acknowledged in their proper place it remains only that we be permitted to infert this teftimony of our grateful fenfe of them. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book A History of British Birds Vol 1 written by T. Bewick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of British Birds, Vol. 1: The Figures Engraved on Wood; Containing the History and Description of Land Birds It may be'proper to obferve, that while one of the editors of this work was engaged in preparing the cuts, which are faithfully drawn from Nature, and engraved upon wood, the compilation of the defcriptions (of tbe Land Birds) was under taken by the other, fubject, however, to the corrections of his friend, whofe habits had led him to a more intimate acquain tance with this branch of Natural Hiflory: the compiler, therefore, is anfwerable for the defects which may be found in this part of the undertaking, concerning which he has lit tle to fay, but that it was the production of thofe hours which could be fpared from a laborious employment, and on, that account he hopes the feverity of criticifm will be fpared, and that it will be received with that indulgence which has been already experienced on a former occafion. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book Supplement to the History of British Birds Classic Reprint written by William Yarrell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Supplement to the History of British Birds IN order, as far as practicable, to make the original edition of the History of British Birds equal to the second, this Supplement, containing figures and descriptions of the species obtained since the publication of the first edition, has been prepared. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book A History of British Birds Vol 1 of 3 Classic Reprint written by William Yarrell and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of British Birds, Vol. 1 of 3 From the lateness of the period, in reference to the printing of these volumes, at which the occurrence of two examples of this Species in Ireland became known to me, I was only able to introduce a figure and a short notice on a single leaf in its place among the Eagles. The fur ther particulars here inserted may prove acceptable. This Eagle, very similar in its appearance to our well known Golden Eagle, but almost one-third smaller in size. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book History of British Birds Vol 2 written by Thomas Bewick and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of British Birds, Vol. 2: Containing the History and Description of Water Birds To point out the paths which lead to happiness, however remote they may lie from common observation, and at the same time to forewarn the inexperienced stranger against approaching those which terminate in vice and misery, is a task worthy of the most enlightened understanding. The learned in every age have laboured for these ends: they have set up their works like beacons and guide-posts, to direct their fellow-travellers in the journey of life. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book The Ready Guide to British Birds Classic Reprint written by B. A. Carter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ready Guide to British Birds AS the result Of long experience the author has cc me to the conclusion that there is a need for a guide to British Birds at once more Simple and more ready than any yet published. After various experiments the plan adopted in this book was decided upon, viz. First to arrange the descriptions SO that in the case Of each bird the same characteristics (colour, flight, haunts, &c.) always follow one another in the same order and then to divide the descriptions into vertical columns, SO that the Observer can, by looking down any one column, run through the different descriptions Of any particular feature until he comes to one which corresponds to what he has observed. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book British Birds written by L. Howard Irby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Birds: Key List Measurements of length are given, but only as an attempt to show the proportionate size of a species. In the writer's Opinion measurements are not of much service, especially as hardly any two persons measure a bird in the same manner. Unless otherwise stated, the sexes are alike in plumage, and the remarks refer to adults in summer plumage. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book The Land Birds in and Around St Andrews written by George Bruce and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Land Birds in and Around St. Andrews: Including a Condensed History of the British Land Birds, With Extracts From the Poets and Observations and Anecdotes on Natural History The origin of this little work dates as far back as January 1855, when attending Dr Day's lectures (by invitation) in the United College, for in one of my notes written at that time the following reason is given: - "Having bought some books on Natural History, and finding the store from which the lectures are taken, it is waste of time to write them from memory. I will go on collecting shells, crabs, eggs, birds, and birds' skins, and refer to these books to tell me their names and habits - my object being to collect most of the shells, birds' eggs, and birds found in Britain. Without a beginning there cannot be an end, so I now begin to follow up this pursuit, and, with good health, expect to find both success and happiness, which the mere pleasure-hunter, idler, or gossiper can never realise." Another early note of March 1856 says: "These notes are simply a conglomeration of observations and facts which have come under my notice - hastily and without order set down at different times - but, although they may appear redundant, still something useful can be taken out of them, as their intention is merely to provide a kind of store for future use - not meant to be read otherwise than as a sort of granary of facts, to be culled at leisure" - hence this book. There is enough material for a second volume, on "The Water Birds" - which may yet appear in print. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book Hand Book to the Birds of Great Britain Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Richard Bowdler Sharpe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1 I. The study of the moulting of birds, the way in which the young gain the plumage of the adult, and the method of change from summer to winter plumage, &c. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book British Birds Vol 4 of 4 Classic Reprint written by Archibald Thorburn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Birds, Vol. 4 of 4 The female is hardly so large as the male, and although the colour in general is similar in both sexes, her crest and neck plumes are less developed than those of her mate. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book British Birds Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Birds This bird was imported by Solomon - Called originally the bird of Media - Its estimation in Greece and Lesser Asia Singular story. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book The British Bird Book Classic Reprint written by Theodore Wood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The British Bird Book The wing of the unhatched bird - of the coots and water hen - The hoatzin's wings - The wing Of Archaeopteryx - Moulting - The nestling game-birds and ducks - Teaching the young to y. About the Publisher 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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Download or read book British Birds Vol 1 of 4 Classic Reprint written by Archibald Thorburn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Birds, Vol. 1 of 4 I have endeavoured, where space permitted, to represent as many species as possible of the same family, on the same plate, and drawn to the same scale. This not only enables me to make the volumes of a convenient size but also gives the reader an opportunity of comparing the various proportions and divergence of colour in closely related birds. About the Publisher 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.

Download or read book A History of British Birds Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by William Yarrell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of British Birds, Vol. 2 Tarsus scutellate in front, covered at the sides with an undivided plate, forming a sharp ridge behind, about as long as the middle toe. Claws but slightly curved, that of the hind toe elongated. Whatever differences of opinion once existed, it has long since been ascertained that the Mountain -, the Tawny and the Snow-Bunting of old authors, are only names for one and the same species in different states of plumage; but to whom belongs the credit of establishing this fact beyond dispute is by no means clear. Linnaeus indeed never faltered in his opinion of their identity, though Pennant and, after him, Latham for some time, took the contrary view. Turton, in 1807, was perhaps the first British naturalist who united the three supposed species into one. This was also done on the continent by Wolf in 1810, by Temminck in 1815 and by Koch in 1816; but both at home and abroad they were regarded as distinct by others, and Montagu maintained to the last the separation of Emberiza montana, though allowing that E. mustelina and E. nivalis might be specifically identified, on the evidence apparently of his friend Foljambe, an excellent practical ornithologist, - who in a letter to him said "a few years ago, I shot more than forty from the same flock, during severe weather in the month of January, hardly any two of which exhibited precisely the same plumage, but varied from the perfect Tawny to the Snow-Bunting in its whitest state; the feathers of those of the intermediate state being more or less charged with white." The Snow-Bunting or Snow-flake is generally considered only a winter-visitor to this country, and to the other temperate parts of Europe; large flocks, consisting chiefly of the young birds of the year, bred in high northern latitudes, annually visiting our islands in autumn. But there is little doubt that some pairs breed every summer in the Highlands of Scotland, while the nest and eggs have been several times found in Unst the most northerly of the Shetlands. About the Publisher 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."