Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds: With Descriptive Notices. E-book. Formato PDF Henry Seebohm   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

To edit any work on British Birds and their eggs is not an easy task. To edit the work of such a past master on the subject as my late friend Henry Seebohm, would have been difficult indeed, had I not had his volumes on "British Birds" on which to rely. I have done my best to present this work as I believe he would have wished it to be issued. In a very few cases I have altered the names of species, where I believe he would have altered them himself, but in the main I have retained his nomenclature throughout, and have adhered closely to the names employed by him in his great work on British Birds, merely adding a reference to Mr. Howard Saunders "Manual", and my own "Handbook of British Birds," where the nomenclature of the species differs from that used by Mr. Seebohm.With the system of classification I have had nothing to do, as before his death he had planned out and settled the order of the plates with his friend Mr. J.A. Brailsford, and this arrangement has consequently been followed.It is satisfactory to know that, whilst many recent Ornithological illustrations have avowedly been "made in Germany," in this instance all the work in connection with the drawing of the eggs, the lithographing of the plates, the printing of the letterpress, and the binding of the volume has been done in Sheffield, at the works of Messrs. Pawson & Brailsford, who are the publishers of the book.

Siberia in Asia: A Visit to the Valley of the Yenesay in East Siberia; With Description of the Natural History, Migration of Birds, Etc. E-book. Formato PDF Henry Seebohm   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In the struggle for existence, which commenced on the opening out of the port of Archangel to British commerce, according to the inevitable law of the survival of the fittest, this Russian maritime enterprise languished and finally died, and thenceforth the inhabitants of the banks of Dvina received their silks 'and their tea Via the Thames instead of the Obb and the Yen-e-say'; and ever since the commercial world seems. To have taken it for granted that the Kara Sea was unnavigable, and that the Kara gates were closed by impenetrable bars of ice.

Siberia in Europe: A Visit to the Valley of the Petchora, in North-East Russia; With Descriptions of the Natural History, Migration of Birds, Etc. E-book. Formato PDF Henry Seebohm   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Political or religious bias as possible, and to give as vivid a picture as I was able of a country widely different from our own, and possessing a climate of an almost opposite character to that of England. Little or nothing of importance has been added since my return home. I have given the reader credit for wishing to know something more of the birds we met with than we learnt on our trip, and Iihave endeavoured to give him an opportunity of satisfying his curiosity by foot-notes, to which he may refer or.