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Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1914, Vol. 16: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsFuertes, Louis Agassiz, Impressions of the Voices of Tropical Birds, 1, 96, 161, 342, 421. Colored plates by, facing 1, facing 68, facing 85, facing 138, facing 161, facing 243, facing 329, facing 409.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.co...

Excerpt from Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and Descriptions of Their Plumages, Nests, and Eggs, Their Distribution and Migrations and a Brief Account of Their Haunts and Habits With Introductory Chapters on the Study of Ornithology, How to Identify Birds and How to CollectThis added material will be found in the introductory pages, which number 116, as compared with 31 in the original edition.Here I have ...

Excerpt from Our Winter Birds: How to Know and How to Attract ThemWhen we draw the shades in summer there is warmth outside as well as in. The leaves seem to rustle contentedly in the night breeze. A Robin is singing his slumber song. Soon a whip-poor-will will begin his chant.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an import...

Excerpt from The Travels of Birds: Our Birds and Their Journeys to Strange LandsIt is true that man makes longer journeys than birds do. But it is also true that he could not make them without help from other men. He might walk where there was land, but he would need days to go as far as a bird could go in an hour. And when he comes to the sea he requires a sailing vessel or steamer with charts and maps and compass to aid him in finding the wa...

Excerpt from Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and Descriptions of Their Plumages, Nests, and Eggs, Their Distribution and Migrations, and a Brief Account of Their Haunts and Habits With Introductory Chapters on the Study of OrnithologyBums, because of their beauty, the charm of their songs, and the ease with which they may be observed, are doubtless the forms of animal life which first attract the young natu...

Excerpt from Color Key to North American Birds: With Bibliographical AppendixWe cannot place a gun in the hands of these thousands of bird - lovers whom we are yearly developing, indeed most of them would refuse to use it.Specimens, therefore, are rarely available to them and we should make some special effort to meet their peculiar wants. The present volume has been prepared with this end in view. Identification of the bird in the bush is its...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from The Economic Value of Birds to the StateDestroy the trees and the insect finds new food in the crops of the farmer, but the birds, although food is still abundant, lose their home when the tree falls, and, lacking the nesting-sites and protection from their enemies once found in its Spreading branches, they soon perish.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.fo...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

About the Book Books about Birds and Bird Watching describe the natural features and environments of birds, and how the observation of birds (birding) is best undertaken as a recreational activity. Titles include: Bird studies with a camera, Bird Houses Boys Can Build, Birds, Their Cages and Their Keep: Being a Practical Manual of Bird-Keeping and Bird-Rearing, Methods of attracting birds, The Coues Check List of North American Birds, The Firs...

Visitors' Guide to the Local Collection of Birds - in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. With an annotated list of the birds known to occur within fifty miles of New York City is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publis...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1917, Vol. 19: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds Burtch, Verdi, Photographs by, facing 127, 318. 341, The Great Blue Herons of Honeoye, 73 The Summer Life of the Virginia Rail, 243. 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....

Excerpt from The Distribution of Bird Life in the Urubamba Valley of Peru: A Report on the Birds Collected by the Yale University-National Geographic Society's Expeditions In collecting birds Mr. Heller attempted to secure species rather than specimens and his collection, therefore, contains a much larger number of forms than its size would lead one to expect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and c...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1902, Vol. 4: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds This. Command was composed of one company of regular infantry, a troop each of California and New Mexican cavalry, and was intended to act as an escort to 'a supply train going to provision a new fort near the Arizona town above mentioned. This march was to be for fully five hundred miles through a hostile Indian region, wher...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1918, Vol. 20: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds Stanley, the only town in the group, in October. The subantarctic spring. From this point, he writes t three species of Penguins on return the same day. Beck went by sloop to the doubtless well-named miles further south. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mor...

Frank Michler Chapman (1864-1945) was an American ornithologist. He joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History in 1888 as assistant to Joel Asaph Allen. In 1901 he was made associate Curator of Mammals and Birds and in 1908 Curator of Birds. He came up with the original idea for the Christmas Bird Count. He wrote many ornithological books as well as numerous papers in scientific journals and magazines such as the National Geogr...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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