Birds of the United States, East of the Rocky Mountains: A Manual for the Identification of Species in Hand or in the Bush (Classic Reprint)
Book Details
Author(s)A. C. Apgar
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN1331607094
ISBN-139781331607090
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Excerpt from Birds of the United States, East of the Rocky Mountains: A Manual for the Identification of Species in Hand or in the Bush
Much interest and enjoyment may be added to our lives by familiarity with those most beautiful, sprightly, and musical forms of life, - the birds. Yet few of us know or even see more than a very small part of the feathered songsters of our woods, fields, and waysides.
The object of this book is to encourage the study of birds by rendering it a pleasant and easy task. The introductory chapters explain briefly the meaning of technical terms used by ornithologists. These chapters are designed chiefly for reference, a much smaller vocabulary being employed in the body of the book.
The descriptions have been prepared with great care, and present several advantages over those in other books:
(1) They are short, being limited to points essential to the identification of the species.
(2) They consist generally of only two connected sentences, which can readily be recalled while looking at a bird. They are thus especially adapted for field use.
(3) Sufficient reference is made to the changes due to sex, age, and season, without describing in any particular species all the phases found in nature.
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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.
Much interest and enjoyment may be added to our lives by familiarity with those most beautiful, sprightly, and musical forms of life, - the birds. Yet few of us know or even see more than a very small part of the feathered songsters of our woods, fields, and waysides.
The object of this book is to encourage the study of birds by rendering it a pleasant and easy task. The introductory chapters explain briefly the meaning of technical terms used by ornithologists. These chapters are designed chiefly for reference, a much smaller vocabulary being employed in the body of the book.
The descriptions have been prepared with great care, and present several advantages over those in other books:
(1) They are short, being limited to points essential to the identification of the species.
(2) They consist generally of only two connected sentences, which can readily be recalled while looking at a bird. They are thus especially adapted for field use.
(3) Sufficient reference is made to the changes due to sex, age, and season, without describing in any particular species all the phases found in nature.
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.
