Download or read book The Natural History of Birds Classic Reprint written by Robert Mudie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Natural History of Birds Subsequently, when, in the course Of events which are not worth mentioning, I came pretty largely and freely into contact with men Of learning and talent, some Of whom have graven their monuments and left us, and others still remain, discharging duties of the first importance, with great ability and much public approbation, I still found, that though there was one species of knowledge in which they were greatly superior to me, there was always, when the subject was not merely technical, that is, supple mental to the reality, another species in which I had the advantage of them; and that, when we came to consider the thing itself, and not the mere view which had been taken of it, my knowledge, though it Often, indeed generally, went but awkwardly in mode and figure, went most directly to the point, This helped to convince me that how valuable soever their learning might be among the professedly learned, it was not exactly the best suited to the wants Of a working world. 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 Natural History written by Philip Henry Gosse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Natural History: Birds Besides the carefully executed engravings of every species described in the following pages, many others, illustrating peculiarities of strue ture, &c., are scattered through the book. 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 Natural History of Birds written by Thomas Rymer Jones and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Natural History of Birds: A Popular Introduction to Ornithology Of Natural History, in as concise a form as possible, a general view of the distribution of the feathered tribes, and of their uses and importance in Creation. The classification we have followed is that proposed by Mr. G. R. Gray in his impor tant work on the Genera of Birds, and is that now adopted in the arrangement of the ornithological collection in the British Museum, to the study of which it is hoped this volume will be a useful guide. The descriptions are selected as far as practicable from original sources, and will be found, notwithstanding the succinctness with which they are given, to embody a large amount of reliable information concerning the habits and mode of life of the various races treated of while the numerous engravings by eminent artists exhibit with clearness and fidelity the leading. 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 Illustrated Natural History written by J. G. Wood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Illustrated Natural History: Birds IN this Work I have continued to carry out the same plan which has been employed in the previous volume descriptive of the Mammalia, giving to the body of the work a popular and anecdotal character, and reserving the more scientific portions for the Compendium of Generic Distinctions at the end of the volume. Much pains has been taken with that part of the work, for which I am in a great degree indebted to the invaluable Genera of Birds by Dr. Gray, a work which has long established itself as the standard of systematic Ornithology as at present accepted by the learned world. The system employed, and the names that are given 111 this work, are those which have been sanctioned by the usage of the national collection in the British Museum; and any one who wishes to study the Birds in a systematic manner can accomplish his object by taking this volume to the Museum, and comparing the specimens with the history of the species in the body of the work, and the characteristic distinctions of the genera at its end. By means of this Table, also, any one can ascertain the approximate position which any bird holds in the system of the present day. 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 Our Own Birds written by William L. Baily and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Own Birds: A Familiar Natural History of the Birds of the United States The object of this book is not to treat the subject of Ornithology scientifically, but simply to present in a concise and familiar manner to the youthful reader, some interesting facts relating to the birds of our own country. Various works have been written and published upon this subject, containing, probably, all that the student or amateur could wish to know; but being both voluminous and expensive, they are quite beyond the reach of children. They also contain, in connection with a variety of interesting matter, an array of scientific details, which to most young persons are unintelligible, and which can only be appreciated by the more advanced student. 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 Natural History of Birds written by J. L. Comstock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Natural History of Birds: With Engravings on a New Plan, Exhibiting Their Comparative Size The bodies of birds are clothed with feathers, one of the lightest of all substances, and these are so arranged as to lie over each other, like the shingles of a house, so that they are a complete protection against the rain and the cold. That they may glide easily through the air, their heads are small, their breasts smooth and gradually swelling, their wings flat, and turned backwards, and their legs so placed, as to make little resistance. Their bones and quills are round and hollow; their lungs are large, and in some kinds, the air passes from them into the bones of the legs and wings thus making every part of the animal as light as possible, consistent with sufficient strength. That the shape of each tribe or family of birds is peculiarly fitted to the modes of life which they lead. 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 Birds Classic Reprint written by P. Pycraft and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of 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 Natural History of Birds Fish Insects and Reptiles Embellished With Upwards of Two Hundred Engravings Vol 6 of 6 written by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects and Reptiles, Embellished With Upwards of Two Hundred Engravings, Vol. 6 of 6: Or Supplementary Volume IN compiling this supplementary volume to the present edition of Button, it has been studiously endeavoured to adapt it to the pre ceding ones, by following the same arrange ment. He, therefore, who should wish to know, in his progress through this part of natural history, what new species of each bird may have been discovered since the time of the illustrious original, will find them ar ranged in this volume, in a corresponding order with that of the former ones. It was thought that the utility of the work would be thus increased. 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 Natural History of Birds Or a Complete System of Ornithology Vol 3 written by Samuel Ward and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Natural History of Birds, or a Complete System of Ornithology, Vol. 3: Illustrated With a Great Variety of Copper-Plates, Accurately Drawn From Nature, and Elegantly Engraved Printed for F. N Ewn ery, the Corner of St. Paul's Church-yard, Ludgate-flrcet. X 77 s. 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 Natural History of Birds Fishes Reptiles and Insects Classic Reprint written by John Bigland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Natural History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects Complete in 1 vol. Svc including all his Suppressed and Attributed Poems; with 6 beautiful engravings. 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 Natural History of Birds written by James Rennie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Natural History of Birds: Their Architecture Habits and Faculties On many of his subjects it has not been in his power to say much. The recent discovery of some birds, and the solitary and secluded habits of others, have offered great Obstacles to his endeavours in this respect. But a time is approaching when these oh stacles will no longer exist. When the population of this immense western republic will have diffused itself over every acre of ground fit for the con1forta ble habitation of man; when farms, villages, towns, and glittering cities, thick as the stars of a winter's evening, overspread the face of our beloved country, and every hill, valley, and stream has its favourite name, its native flocks, and rural inhabitants; then not a warbler Shall flit through our thickets but its name, its notes, and habits will be familiar to all, repeated in their sayings, and celebrated in their village songs. At that happy period, should any vestige or memory of the pre'sent publication exist, be it known to our more enlightened posterity, as some apology for the deficiencies of its author, that in the period in which he wrote, three fourths of our feathered tribes were altogether unknown even to the proprietors of the woods which they frequented; that, without patron, fortune, or recompense, he brought the greater part of these from the obscurity of ages, gave to each 'a local habitation and a name, ' collected from personal observation what. Ever of their characters and manners seemed de serving Of attention; and delineated their forms and features, in their native colours, as faithfully as he could, as records, at least, of their existence. 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 American Ornithology Or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States Vol 1 of 4 Classic Reprint written by Alexander Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Vol. 1 of 4 It will be seen, from the Memoir of Wilson in the present volume, that his portion of the American Ornithology consists of nine volumes quarto, the descriptive part of the concluding volume having been drawn up by Mr George ord, of Philadelphia. In 1825, Mr Ord was again employed to prepare new editions of the seventh, eighth, and ninth volumes, and made considerable additions: in 1828, three supplementary volumes, by Charles Lucian Bonaparte, * appeared. 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 On the Natural History and Classification of Birds Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by William Swainson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Natural History and Classification of Birds, Vol. 1 We have said that birds are the butterflies of the vertebrated animals, not merely in the figurative imagery of poetry, but in the sober language of science. This analogy will be at once apparent, on comparing the circle of the animal kingdom with that of the vertebrated animals. 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 An Introduction to the Natural History of Birds written by James Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Introduction to the Natural History of Birds: Being the Article "Ornithology," From the Seventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; With One Hundred and Thirty-Five Figures An extremely useful and well-concocted work, of less ambitious form than the preceding, is the Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada, by Thomas Nuttall, F. L. S., in two compact octavo volumes, Cambridge and Boston, 1832 The author has recent ly returned from a scientific tour through the great west ern territories, including an-extended range of the Rocky Mountains; and, we doubt not, the public will benefit by whatever account he gives of his researches. 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 American Ornithology Or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States Vol 3 written by Alexander Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Vol. 3: Illustrated With Plates Engraved From Drawings From Nature That there is a property in names as well as in things, will not be disputed; and there are few naturalists who would not feel as sensibly a fraud committed on their nomenclature as on their purse. The ardor with which the student pursues his researches, and the solicitude which he manifests in promulgating his discoveries under appropriate appella tions, are proofs that at least part of his gratification is derived from the supposed distinction which a name will confer upon him; deprive him of this distinction, and you in ict a wound upon his self-love, which will not readily be healed. 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 American Ornithology Or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States Vol 2 of 3 written by Alexander Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Vol. 2 of 3: Illustrated With Plates, Engraved and Coloured From Original Drawings Taken From Nature The body of the tree is also disfigured with such numerous and so large excavations, that one can hardly conceive it possible for the whole to be the work of a Woodpecker. With such strength, and an apparatus so powerful, what havoc might he not commit, if numerous, on the most useful of our forest trees. 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 Familiar History of Birds Classic Reprint written by Edward Stanley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Familiar History of Birds Our object being rather to furnish the reader with rational and interesting facts, than systematic arrange ments, it is not intended to treat the subject of Ornitho logy* scientifically. But, at a period when the education of every class of the community is rapidly improving, and when the minds of the rising generation are in a state of advancement, fitting them for that more perfect knowledge, which, in' the preparation of elementary books, ought always to be kept in view, it is of import ance, that even the simplest work should be arranged and founded, in some degree, on scientific principles. We shall, therefore: commence with a few introductory remarks on those peculiar features in the formation and habits of Birds, by which they are distinguished from other branches of the animal creation; evincing as they do, that uniform and beautiful adaptation of means to the accomplishment of certain ends, which characterize every branch of the creation; each in its respective per fection, proving beyond contradiction, that as the works of the Lord are manifold, so in wisdom hath He made them all. 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.
