The Birds Of Greenland Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from A Memoir on the Birds of Greenland: With Descriptions and Notes on the Species Observed in the Late Voyage of Discovery in Davis's Straits and Baffin's Bay The progress of this bird from youth, when it is quite brown, to the almost perfect whiteness of its maturity, forms a succession of changes in which each individual feather gradually loses a portion of its brown as the white edging on the margin increases in breadth from year to year; such has been the cause of the variety of synonyms which have been referred to. 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.