A Check List of North American Birds (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Check List of North American BirdsSome of our distinguished men of science seem to have placed their collections and their suggestions at the service of Mr. Cones, but he is fundamentally an original explorer. Nobody can look over the beautiful book without feeling that the, author has added to ornithology as well as furnished its North American Key.' We wish we knew enough about the subject to convict him of a few mistakes. Having, however, great respect for specialists we never venture to intrude an Opinion we have not earned the right to give by special study. It is a modest ah dication of an insolent tyranny, but we make it with satisfaction. It would be cruel, perhaps, to disturb the useful superstition that notices of books are emuls cient and infallible. Still. We reluctantly confess that Mr. Cones is ahead of us in his particular branch of knowledge, and we have submitted to the intolerable ignominy of learning something from him with a keen sense of pleasure. Indeed this Key to North American Birds is a volume which will attract all naturalists for its accuracy of description and its contributions to the work of intelligent classification Boston Globe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.