A History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory, Vol. 5

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Excerpt from A History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory, Vol. 5: Including Their Organization, Habits, and Relations, Cribratores, or Sifters, Urinatores, or Divers, Mersatores, or PlungersThis, the last volume of my History of British Birds, contains descriptions of all our natatorial or palmipede species, with exception of those of the families of the Anserinae and Cygninae, which have already been given. The habits of these birds, not generally so accessible to observation as most of the other families, I have studied, in so far as opportunities occurred, in their places of resort, among rocks and islands, on the sandy shores of the sea, in the firths and estuaries, and on the inland waters. Of many of them, however, and, in particular, of the very rare species which rank with us as stragglers, I have had little to say from my own observa tion, and not much from that of others.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.