Common British Birds

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Excerpt from Common British Birds: How to Identify Them An attempt has been made in the following pages to provide a simple guide to the identification of some of the more common inland British Birds. The aim has been to place as clearly as possible before the reader just those features of size, plumage, note, &c., , which will enable him to distinguish the different species of our. common birds when seen in their wild state in the fields and woods. The size being probably the first feature to be observed, a list will be found following this Note of the species grouped under different sizes as compared with four well-known common birds, viz. the Sparrow, Blackbird, Pigeon, and Rook. A brief note is appended of some striking peculiarity of each species, and initial letters showing whether a resident or a summer or winter visitor to the British Isles. The same plan of stating the size as compared with one or other of the four standards is followed in the account of each species, as being preferable to giving the length in inches in a work intended mainly for reference in the field. I should recommend all bird-lovers to obtain if possible a pair of field-glasses, as these, even if only moderate in power, will prove of the greatest service. 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.