New England Bird Life, Vol. 1: Being a Manual of New England Ornithology, Oscines (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from New England Bird Life, Vol. 1: Being a Manual of New England Ornithology, Oscines

Mr. Stearns undertook this work Several years ago, at the writer's suggestion that such a treatise was much to be desired, and could not fail to subserve a useful purpose. Having been diligently revised from time to time, in the light of our steadily increasing knowledge.

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Excerpt from New England Bird Life, Vol. 1: Being a Manual of New England Ornithology, Oscines

Although several publications on the subject of which this volume treats have appeared, no complete and satisfactory exposition of the Bird-life of New England has yet been given to the public. It is now many years since Mr. E. A. Samuels' work appeared; and that treatise, however well answering former requirements of the case, would scarcely be considered to reflect the extent of our present knowledge. Mr. H. D. Minot's later work, which, by the way, is a better one, as far as it goes, than some of his critics seem disposed to admit, treated only the Land and Game Birds of New England, thus leaving untouched no small portion of the subject. In 1868, the present writer published "A List of the Birds of New England;" and, in 1875, a paper of similar plan and scope was issued by Dr. T. M. Brewer, with the obvious intention of correcting the presumed or alleged errors of the "List" of 1868.

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