Catalogue Of The Accipitres Or Diurnal Birds Of Prey In The Collection Of The British Museum Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from A Synopsis of the Accipitres (Diurnal Birds of Prey): Comprising Species and Subspecies Described Up to 1920, With Their Characters and Distribution The necessity for a second edition of my work on the Accipitres arose in the first place out of the many corrections called for in the first part of my "Synoptical List," owing to the fact that that first part was rather a compilation than an original work, and in the second place out of the additions and corrections to the whole work that followed upon a more intensive study of the various groups. For this second edition I have had the advantage of consulting Mr. W. Sclater's MS. list of the Accipitres which he prepared for publication in the interval between my two editions, but kindly placed at my disposal on learning of the preparation of my second edition. From Mr. Sclater's MS. list I have received some amount of help with the nomenclature and also with the type species of the genera. I owe also a great measure of thanks to Mr. Outram Bangs, Dr. Chapman, Dr. Richmond, Dr. Wetmore, Dr. Oberholser, Mr. J. H. Riley, and other American friends who assisted me in my work at the American museums last autumn, while the authorities at the Brit. Museum (Nat. Hist.) and at Tring have continued to give me every facility for my work. Even now, I am not sure that I can claim that this second edition, practically re-written as it is, is either complete or perfect, but, so far as human exertion can go, I have striven to make it so, and I leave it to my critics to discover its shortcomings. The signs (*) and ( ) I have prefixed to the numbers in this edition denote respectively that I have skins or eggs in my own collection. Of skins I possess now about 1000 of some 200 different forms, while of eggs I have 1200 of 156 different forms. All others, needless to say, are desiderata. 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."