Bird Life and Bird Lore (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: R. Bosworth Smith
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266920656
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Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Excerpt from Bird Life and Bird Lore Let me, even at the risk of anticipating what may and must be said repeatedly, in other shapes, in other parts of the volume, endeavour to explain in a word or two, the scope and limits of my work as regards these two main objects. 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.

Author: National Audubon Society
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333101596
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Excerpt from Bird-Lore, Vol. 21: January February, 1919 Pointing his long bill at the offenders, he sways from side to side, still further augmenting his size and the effect of the marks, and advances toward them. This usually produces the desired effect and the other birds leave, whereupon he proceeds to carry off the food and hide it in crevices in the bark where it will be most available to himself and least available to his competitors. Ordinarily, the other birds leave before the Nuthatch comes into the field of the camera, but the preceding photograph shows him in action when a Sparrow, either more brave or more stubborn than the rest, has clung to his post by the food. 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.

Author: Association of Audubon Societies
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484581059
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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Excerpt from Bird-Lore, Vol. 24: January February, 1922 HE form of a bird at rest is so definite, its lines so simple and continuous, rthat one might imagine they could be reproduced by anyone with even slight talent for drawing. Nevertheless, good bird artists are rare. Possibly the very simplicity of the bird's outline makes it a difficult subject, for although each species possesses its own characteristics of form, pose, and expression, which to the bird student are pronounced and Obvious, they are not evident to the artist who has not sufficient interest in bird-life to study his subject sympathetically. How many otherwise excellent paintings are marred by the introduction of the figures of birds as anatomically incorrect as would be a human figure drawn with arms, let us say, attached to the hips instead of to the shoulders! No artist would attempt to draw a man without having previously studied the original; why, therefore, should he hope for success in bird portraiture when he relies on his imagination rather than on nature for a model? It requires, however, something more than study from life to produce a wholly adequate bird picture, just as it requires something in addition to good draftsmanship to paint the portrait of a human subject. Where, on the one hand, there is needed that sympathetic insight into human nature which per mits of character interpretation, so, on the other, there is need for that love of birds which sees not merely a feathered form but a.creature marvelously endowed with its own special traits, disposition, and potentialities, which are evident only to one who is familiar with what we call the habits Of his subject. It is clear, for example, that one should not depict a Dove with the expression of a Hawk, but only the bird student knows the difference in expression, physiognomy, and attitude between a Warbler and a Vireo. Without going further it may be said, in a word, that no one has ever reached or ever will reach the first rank of bird artists who is not possessed of that keen interest in birds which marks the horn ornithologist. 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.

Author: Alfred Edmund Brehm
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484327930
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 948

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Excerpt from Bird-Life: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits It is by a true appreciation of the wonders of Nature that the mind becomes expanded, the perceptions quickened, and the heart refined and softened. A more intimate knowledge of the beauties Of Creation inevitably conduces to delicacy of ideas and tenderness Of feeling. If lovely flowers be seen in a cottage window, rest assured that beneath that roof there exists a gentler and more kindly life than under the next, where not a green leaf is to be seen. Where bees are kept, or pet birds are to be found, there is sure to be seen a glimpse, and a bright one, too, Of the tender and more loveable side of our nature. One, if not the greatest, enemy to cruelty and brutality is knowledge; hence let us Offer every inducement in our power to its acquirement in connection with the beauties by which we are surrounded. Though this work is Of little or no value to the scientific reader, and is, doubtless, open to a certain amount of adverse criticism, still, taken as a whole, the main proportion of information contained therein is correct; while the various anecdotes and the minute detail of Observation are, at the same time, useful and entertaining. 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.

Author: Frank M. Chapman
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334676154
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1901, Vol. 3: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds The same nest, with a bird seated on it, is shown in the picture on the opposite page. Note - The head of this bird, from the eye upward, projected beyond the edge of the plate and was not. Therefore, photographed. It has here been supplied by Chas. R. Knight, from sketches from life. 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.

Author: Francis Hobart Herrick
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267151561
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Excerpt from The Home Life, of Wild Birds: A New Method of the Study and Photography of Birds The semi-technical parts will naturally appeal most to stu dents, but I hope they will not be without interest to the general reader. The field of animal behavior in the direction of both observa tion and experiment is of boundless extent, while on the side of inference it is full of pitfalls. Even if I have not successfully avoided the latter in every case, I have been continually on my guard. My thanks are specially due to the publishers of this volume, who have forwarded my wishes in every possible way. I am also indebted to the editors of the Century Magazine, and of Bird Lore for permission to use certain material which has already appeared in their pages, and to all critics of the earlier edition who have appreciated my efforts. 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.

Author: Frank Gouldsmith Speck
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265593257
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Excerpt from Bird-Lore of the Northern Indians Men and their manners naturally hold first rank in the attention of the student and traveler. And yet whatever contributes to our experience is also of equal importance whether it be found in the animal or vegetable kingdom. In the realm of nature, birds are such social, intelligent and active beings that in the combination of the two spheres of observa tion, man-kind and birds, we find pleasant and profitable em ployment. The world of bird-life seems to have engaged the lively interest of men in ancient as well as in modern times, for there is hardly any part of creation within the reach of our observations which exhibits a more glorious display. Such a variety of pleasing scenes as the bird world shows, ever changing throughout the seasons, arising from various causes, and des tined for different purposes, naturally held a strong appeal to the primitive men who dwelt in the forests of North America. These scenes were free to the enjoyment and inspection of various tribes who developed different reactions to them under the influence of their differing inner lives. They observed that the order of birds, like themselves, constituted tribes and bands, separated by their different structure, manners and utterances, as each tribe, though subdivided into smaller groups, retains its form in customs and language particular to that nation or genus from which it seems to have descended. It may be said, I think without exaggeration, that the native Indians live much closer to Nature than most white peo ple could hope to do. Their knowledge of wildlife is therefore inexhaustible in quantity though it is often far from being scientifically correct. From their hchildhood, girls are taught much practical botany, the identity and use of scores of plants. 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.

Author: Reginald Bosworth Smith
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780469170490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: National Audubon Societies Association
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333619312
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1912, Vol. 14 Three acres of lawn between the house and road on the westerly side of the place; with a few picturesque old apple trees scattered about, remnants of an orchard of the previous generation. We keep clipped only that portion of the lawn immediately about the house, garden and tennis lawn; and on the remainder cultivate hay, thus affording the ground-building birds additional chance. Such a lawn, with its waving grass tops, with their lights and shadows and many tints, and, in their season, thousands of crocuses, narcissi, and daisies, is always far more satisfactory to me than any closely trimmed lawn could ever be. Six acres of rather wet tussock-grown meadow, on the southerly side of the place and at the base of the hill. Through this runs a brook, bordered by birches, elms, red maples, Witch hazels, alders, wild roses, etc. 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.

Author: John Lea
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267630110
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Excerpt from The Wonders of Bird Life: An Interesting Account of the Education, Courtship, Sport Play, Fighting Other Aspects of the Life of Birds The interest of a bird's life story begins with the very earliest days while the chick is still in the egg, unborn, and there is no reason why we should not take that as our starting point; indeed, if we do so, we shall meet at once with some of the most remarkable and beautiful instances of the way in which Nature has made provision for carrying on her work of aiding and safeguarding the appearance on the earth of a new living creature. 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.