Familiar Wild Birds (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This third volume, treating of the habits and appearance of our Familiar Wild Birds, is prepared on the same lines as its predecessors, which have met With such a Wide-spread welcome from the public. It is, unhappily, necessary to remark that, as these popular chapters go further through the list of British birds, they now come from time to time upon birds which, once familiar enough, are fast becoming no longer so. A few in these volumes are now nearly on the verge of extinction; but as their names are almost household words amongst the population of one part or the other of these islands, it has seemed all the more desirable on that account to place faithful descriptions and portraits before the reader)

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