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Identifier: britishbirdseggs00atk (find matches)
Title: British birds' eggs and nests : popularly described
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Atkinson, J. C. (John Christopher), 1814-1900
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London New York : G. Routledge and Sons
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ng and notes of many yeais, to select what mightbe instructive, interesting or amusing, without burdening thebook with unnecessary details, or encroaching too much on theallotted space. The principle adopted in the illustrations has been to omit allrepresentations of eggs either white or nearly white in colour, inorder to husband space for the admission of a greater number of,those characterised by varied colours and markings. On the sameground, although it was earnestly desired by the artist to give morethan one representation of some of the very marked variationsoccurring in the eggs of several species, he has been compelled tocontent himself with selecting and figuring the most typical ornormal forms in all such cases. All the illustrations given have beencarefully drawn from unquestionable specimens, and Mr. Colemandeskes to acknowledge in this place the assistance, which in thismatter, has been afforded him by that excellent and accuratepractical naturalist, Mr. P. Bond. PLATE I.
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PRErACE. vii All Appendix is subjoined, in wliich a notice will be found ofthe habits of nidification, the nests and eggs of several birds,which though regular inhabitants of Britain or some part of it,for a given portion of each year, stiU retire to foreign and distantlocaKties for the purposes of nest-making and rearing theiryoung. Finally, an attempt has been made to e.xliibit at one glance,and in a very condensed and systematic form, as much informationas possible touching the nest, its customary site and materials,and also the eggs, their number, colour, and markings, and anynoteworthy breeding peculiarities of each separate British-breed-ing species,. J t is hoped this attempt, somewhat novel as it is,and almost inevitably imperfect as it must be in some respects,will not be regarded as altogether unacceptable by the youthfulnest-hunter and egg-collector.•> The author has only to observe, in conclusion, that he hasscarcely thought it necessary hi the majority of instances t

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