A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, Vol. 1 of 3 The passion for the possession of articles of interest is one which is most widely diffused amongst all races of mankind, from the untutored savage who collects beads and coloured rags, to the most civilized connoisseur of the highest works of art. In many cases the objects of these collections possess little or no value beyond their rarity; they often have neither beauty nor utility to recommend them. The giver of a score or more pounds for an old postage stamp, which merely enables him to state that he has an example that is not in the possession of any other collector, is perhaps an extreme case. The collection of nests, and more particularly of eggs, was formerly to be regarded as of very much the same nature, but now egg-collecting is no longer merely a schoolboy´s pastime, and Oology has been elevated to the rank of an intellectual science. It is, if rightly followed, an important branch of natural history, and we are now able to state that the colours of eggs and the forms of nests, like that of the birds that lay the one and build the other, have a fixed and definite object, namely, concealment and the protection of the species. 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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