Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, Vol. 1: Zoological Contributions From the Tropical Research Station of the New York Zoological Society This gift of expression is of value because it is based on a really phenomenal gift of both wide and minutely in tensive observation. The fundamental differences between the quality of his study and the quality of the study of the average closet museum worker can be illustrated by 'his oh servation of those queer South American game birds, the tinamous. Closet naturalists have long known that some of the tinamou had rough, and some smooth, tarsi. This fact awakened no curiosity in their minds, no desire to find out whether it was correlated with any difference in habits 'or life history. Thev simply treated it as justifying a termin ological decision as to whether it marked a genus or a sub genus, and examined the tarsus of each specimen with only sufficient care to enable them to decide the specimen-drawer into which it should be thrown. 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. 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.