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"_The greatest and best book ever written about birds._"--Elliott Coues
A DICTIONARY OF BIRDS =====================
Professor of Zoölogy and Comparative Anatomy, University of Cambridge
RICHARD LYDEKKER Author (with Sir W. H. FLOWER) of "An Introduction to the Study of Mammals," etc.
CHARLES S. ROY Professor in the University of Cambridge
ROBERT W. SHUFELDT Late U. S. Army. Author of "The Myology of the Raven," etc.
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"_=It is far and away the best book ever written about birds=_ ... the best 'all-round' book we have ever seen; the one that best answers the purposes of all readers; the one which conveys the most information per thousand _ems_; the one which is freest from misstatements of any sort; the one which is most cautious and conservative in expression of opinions where opinions may reasonably differ; the one which is the most keenly critical, yet most eminently just in rendering adverse decisions...."
"A very useful and concise volume, in which is to be found a vast amount of varied information."
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"_=The most valuable and most interesting contribution ever made to the subject of which it treats.=_"
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Being Volume IX of the Cambridge Natural History
S. F. HARMER, Sc.D., F.R.S. A. E. SHIPLEY, M. A.
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge Superintendent of the University Lecturer on University Museum of Zoölogy the Morphology of Invertebrates
A very different volume from the exhaustive "Dictionary of Birds," by Professor Alfred Newton, which ranks as "the most valuable and interesting contribution ever made to the subject" of Ornithology, but one which may well hold its own place beside that work on the student's table or precede it on its shelves. It is rarely complete, more so than any book of its class published, and the descriptions, though brief, are clear, and, whenever necessary, illustrated by drawings made specially for this work. Prefixed to each group described is a brief summary of the Structure and Habits, a few further particulars of the same nature being subsequently added where necessary, with a statement of the main Fossil forms as yet recorded. The Scheme of Classification is of great value to the Student.