British Birds Their Eggs
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Boraston, J. Maclair) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from British Birds Their Eggs: With a New Method of Identification This book has been written with the exclusively practical object of enabling persons unacquainted with British birds to identify them by their most obvious characteristics. Handbooks hitherto designed for this purpose have, by classifying the birds according to genera and species, or by arranging them merely in alphabetical order, failed to meet this need. For it is obvious that a beginner who wishes to identify a bird he has observed for the first time, and therefore one of which he does not know the name, cannot turn up the description of it by the aid of an alphabetical list. Nor can he be expected to know where to turn to find it in a book wherein birds are grouped according to generic distinctions, about which as yet he knows nothing! The observations of beginners relate to broad distinctions of colour and markings, then to peculiarities in the gestures and notes of birds, and so on, and it is only by seeking to see birds with the eye of a beginner that one can assist him to the knowledge of what he does not know, as a natural development from what he himself may observe with no other equipment than his own eyes. Any other method involves an attempt to explain the unknown by what is equally unknown. The grouping of birds under such headings as ´Black-and-White Birds,´ ´Ruddy-Breasted Birds,´ ´Trunk-Climbing Birds,´ &c., as are here used, has the obvious merit of presenting birds to the beginner as he himself sees them. When, as in the case of the Bullfinch, a bird might be sought under two headings - in this case ´Black-Capped Birds´ and ´Ruddy-Breasted Birds´ - cross-references direct the student to that group in which it has been deemed best that the description of it should appear. 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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