The Natural History of the Nectariniadæ, or Sun-Birds: Illustrated by Thirty-Two Coloured Plates, With Portrait and Memoir of Willoughby (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Natural History of the Nectariniadæ, or Sun-Birds: Illustrated by Thirty-Two Coloured Plates, With Portrait and Memoir of Willoughby

The Lesser Double-collared sun-bird. Nectarinia chalybeia. Plate I. The Greater Double-collared sun-bird.

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Excerpt from The Natural History of the Nectariniadæ, or Sun-Birds: Illustrated by Thirty-Two Coloured Plates, With Portrait and Memoir of Willoughby

Francis Willughby was the first naturalist who treated the study of birds as a science, and the first who made any thing like a rational classification. - Neville Wood's Ornithologists' T ext-book. Willughby was the most accomplished zoologist of this or any other country, for all the honour that has been given to Ray, so far as concerns systematic zoology, belongs exclusively to him. In botany, and in no other science, was Ray the author of a system, for he confessedly adopted Willughby's both in ornithology and ichthyology, while his arrangement of quadrupeds, and of insects, Was doubtless derived from the same source. - Swainson, in the Cabinet Cyclnpadza.

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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.