Excerpt from The Second Book of Birds: Bird FamiliesI retain the old arrangement of the families because that brings the more familiar and inter esting birds first, and my aim is, first to interest, and then to instruct.The scientific names of Families and Species as given in the Table of Contents are according to the check-list of the American Ornithologists'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 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.