A Dictionary of English and Folk-Names of British Birds
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Excerpt from A Dictionary of English and Folk-Names of British Birds: With Their History, Meaning, and First Usage: And the Folk-Lore, Weather-Lore, Legends, Etc;, Relating to the More Familiar Species The idea and general scheme of this work were first entertained by me as far back as 1895, and from time to time since then I have worked at gathering up and piecing together the materials until during the past year the work had grown to such proportions and approached so nearly towards completion that I deemed it worthy of publication. To say that even as now published it is complete, would be claiming too much for it, since with such a vast field open to research, both in literature and dialect, the possibilities of addition and correction are still very great. The first work approaching the scheme of the present volume was Swainson´s "Folklore and Provincial Names of British Birds," published in 1886, which contains nearly 2,000 local and other English names, but the author did not attempt to deal with the important matter of book-names of species, and moreover the work, useful as it is, suffers somewhat from not being arranged in the form of a dictionary. Compared to Swainson´s work, Newton´s "Dictionary of Birds" (1893-6) contains a great many less names, as might be expected from the scope of the book, which was too wide to allow the author to direct much of his great talent and research upon this limited subject. Mr. Hett, in 1898, issued a short list of names in his "Call Notes of Birds," and in 1902 he published a much more extended list, containing nearly 3,000 names, although it comprises merely a list of names with the species they refer to and includes many mere variations and mis-spellings. In the present "Dictionary" I have assembled, including variations of spelling, nearly 5,000 names. Of course there are also partial or local lists of names to be found in various ornithological works and periodicals of all kinds. 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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