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Excerpt from Talks About BirdsIN this book I have made an attempt to talk over with young people who are fond of birds the points which have always interested me in my studies of them - and I have studied birds ever since I can remember. What I have always cared about in connexion with them has been their ways of living, their habits and tricks, and their minds and thoughts, so far as we know them to have any. I have also always paid particula...

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This vintage book contains information on parrots and pigeons, including details of different varieties, their habits and idiosyncrasies, diet, temperament, natural history, and more. "The Parrots and the Pigeons" is a fantastic handbook for both existing and prospective owners, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Content's include: "The Parrots and Pigeons", "The Typical Parrots", "The Lories", "The Cocka...

Excerpt from The Wild Beasts of the World Taking it all round, from youth to old age, in appearance and behaviour, the Chimpanzee is the most nearly human of all beasts, and, as it is the hardiest of all man-like apes, and therefore the most familiar in captivity, it is the best known of all of them by sight, though hardly rivalling its formidable relative, the Gorilla, in reputation in the popular mind. It will be noticed in the illustratio...

Excerpt from The Birds of Calcutta The kind reception accorded to the first edition of the present little work has been deemed a justification for its reproduction in an improved form. A few necessary alterations have been made to bring it up to date, and the chapters have been re-arranged so as to bring the birds dealt with into the same order as that in which they occur in the Fauna of British India, Bird volumes. The scientific names used ...

Excerpt from Ornithological Other Oddities It has always been my belief that "the man in the street" has more interest in natural history, as in other intellectual matters, than eclectics would credit him with, and hence I venture to offer to the public this series of chapters on various topics connected with animal - especially bird - life, which I have had reason to suppose would prove interesting to the general reader. At the same time I ...

Excerpt from Garden and Aviary Birds of India The Parrots and Pigeons, The Parrot Order Generally - Typical Parrots - Ring-necked Parakeet - Plum-headed Parakeet - Rosella - Budgerigar - The Lories -For sten's Lorikeet - Harlequin Lorikeet - The Cockatoos - Cockatiel - The Pigeons - Tame Riwi-Dove - Wild Ring-Dove - Red Dove - Spotted Dove - Little Brown Dove - Bronze-wing Dove - Crested Dove - Hanial or Green Pigeon. Management of Captive B...

Excerpt from The Game Birds of India and Asia Burmese species, exotic ones are to be found under tile British Museum Catalogue names, and in the case of birds described since the publication of that work, under the names given by their describers, with references to the publication where the descriptions appeared. I have not, however, considered it necessary to deal with the many so-called species of Phasianus (typical pheasants) or Gennoeus...

Excerpt from The Water Fowl of India and Asia The favorable reception which the Anglo-Indian public has been kind enough to accord to the present work in its first form "How to know the Indian Ducks" has been deemed a justification for the issue of this revised edition, which has not only been brought up to date as far as Indian waterfowl are concerned, but amplified by the addition of brief notices and descriptions of all non-Indian Asiatic ...

Containing readings from eyewitness accounts of the collapse of the Roman republic, RES PUBLICA CONQUASSATA (The Republic Shattered) relates Julius Caesar's invasion of his own fatherland at the head of a loyal and seasoned army. The correspondence of the great orator Marcus Cicero, one of Caesar's most prominent political adversaries, is interspersed among Caesar's narrative episodes of the civil war (DE BELLO CIVILI). Map.

Excerpt from The World's Birds: A Simple and Popular Classification, of the Birds of the World The present work is an attempt to afford a practical and comprehensive survey of the living birds of the world for the benefit of those who have not the time or inclination to engage in dissection or detailed museum work, but wish to form, from simple ordinary oh servation of living or stuffed birds, some idea of the relationships and attributes of ...

Excerpt from Bird Behaviour, Psychical and Physiological Importance of subject - Incompleteness of our information about even the commonest species - Distinction between major and minor habits - General activities or tricks of manner - Greater importance of the latter in classification - Errors to be avoided in observation. The study of birds is often looked down upon by general zoologists as a trifling pursuit, and the reason of this is not...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Excerpt from Indian Sporting Birds India is a remarkable country in many ways, and not the least so in that, in spite of a civilization of immemorial antiquity, there remains in our Eastern dominions such a rich profusion and variety of wild life, even the large quadrupeds, so soon exterminated by civilized man, persisting in considerable numbers. This wealth of mammalian life naturally attracts the attention of sportsmen, to the exclusion, t...