| Birdcraft - A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds Contributor(s): Wright, Mabel Osgood (Author) |
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ISBN: 1406722251 ISBN-13: 9781406722253 Publisher: Ghose Press OUR PRICE: $32.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Thus on Earths little ball to the birds you owe all, yet your gratitudes small for the favours theyve done. And their feathers you pill, and you eat them at will, yes, you plunder and kill the bright birds oneby one Theres a price on their head, and the Dodo is dead, and the Moa has fled from the face of the sun ANDREW LANG. And the birds sang round him, oer him, Do not shoot us, Hiawatha Sang the Opechee, the Robin, Sang the Bluebird, the Owaissa, Do not shoot us, Hiawatha LONGFELLOW. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE TO THE READER xi INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS THE SPRING SONG 3 THE BUILDING OF THE NEST 11 THE WATER-BIRDS 21 BIRDS OF AUTUMN AND WINTER 25 HOW TO NAME THE BIRDS 35 SYNOPSIS OF FAMILIES 43 BIRD BIOGRAPHIES PERCHING SONG-BIRDS 67 PERCHING SONGLESS BIRDS 182 BIRDS OF PREY 206 PIGEONS, QUAILS, GROUSE 225 SHORE AND MARSH BIRDS 231 SWIMMING BIRDS 255 KEY TO THE BIRDS 281 INDEX OF ENGLISH NAMES 309 INDEX OF LATIN NAMES 315 vii |
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| BISAC Categories: - Nature |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.37 lbs) 496 pages |