A Chapter on Birds: Rare British Visitors (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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British birds without quoting from him. No one has taken the pains that Mr. Seebohm took, before writing his History of British Birds, to travel into all parts of Europe, and even into Siberia, to learn something about the nesting habits of the rarer species of European birds; and, with the exception of those of Naumann and Macgillivray, there is no work so full of original observation as the above-mentioned one of Mr. Seebohm. In America there are several excellent books on the habits of birds, and the observations of Captain Bendire in his Life History of North American Birds, and those of Mr. W. H. Hudson on South American Bird-life, are amongst the most important of modern contributions to our knowledge of Natural History.

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