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The Living Animals of the World, Volume 2 (of 2)
William Forsell Kirby
Birds fill this second volume of the world's living animals, from game-birds and pigeons to auks, cranes, and the tube-nosed wanderers of the open sea. W. F. Kirby describes each tribe with vivid detail. A sweeping ornithological survey for the curious reader. From bustards to penguins, the feathered world laid out in order. Meet the birds of every continent and ocean in one grand tour.
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56 chapters
- 1Book II. Birds.
- 2I. The ostrich and its kindred.
- 3II. The game-birds and rails.
- 4III. Pigeons and sand-grouse.
- 5IV. Auks, gulls, and plovers.
- 6V. Bustards and cranes.
- 7VI. Grebes and divers, penguins, and tube-nosed birds.
- 8VII. Storks, herons, and pelican tribe.
- 9VIII. Screamers, ducks, geese, and swans.
- 10IX. Birds of prey and owls.
- 11X. Night-jars, swifts, and humming-birds.
- 12XI. Parrots, cuckoos, and plantain-eaters.
- 13XII. Rollers, kingfishers, hornbills, and hoopoes.
- 14XIII. Bee-eaters, motmots, todies, colies, and trogons.
- 15XIV. Toucans, honey-guides, jacamars and puff-birds, barbets and woodpeckers.
- 16XV. The perching-birds.
- 17XVI. Larks, titmice, honey-eaters, and their kindred.
- 18XVII. Shrikes, thrushes and their allies, swallows, lyre-birds, chatterers, broad-bills, etc.
+ 38 more. The full contents open with the book.
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