Birds on the British List

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Excerpt from Birds on the British List: Their Title to Enrollment Considered, Especially With Reference to the British Ornithological Union's List of British Birds, With a Few Remarks Upon 'Evolution, ' and Notes Upon the Rarer Eggs To Persons who are desirous to make a collection of Birds, or their eggs, and to confine that collection to those of this country, it is of importance to be clear as to what birds are, or are not British: and it appears to me that 'British Birds, ' and 'Birds on the British List' are not quite the same thing. Thè difficulty of determining which are 'British Birds' consists in the different views which those Ornithologists take, who, by their experience, and publications, are justly accepted as law-givers. The difficulty, as to what Birds should be upon the British List, consists in the authenticity or non-authenticity of their 'occurrence' in these Islands. The evidence, when fairly put can be competently judged by most persons who take an interest in the subject. But it has been most differently admitted, or rejected by our best men. It seems manifest, if a distinction be drawn between 'British Birds, ' and 'Birds on the British List, ' that a single occurrence of any wild bird, from natural causes, should entitle that bird to a place on our List, but it should take much more to constitute it a British Bird. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.