Identifier: illustratedbooko00blak (find matches)
Title: The illustrated book of canaries and cage-birds, British and foreign
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Blakston, W. A Swaysland, W Wiener, August F
Subjects: Canaries Cage birds
Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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CASSE.LLS Canaries and Cage Birds.
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Vincenl Brooks Day kSonl.ilh I. nonpare.il finch. Z. COMMON BLUE BIRD. 3.YELLOW BELLI ED LIOTHRIX OR PEKIN NIGHTINGALE,4. I N D I G 0 BIRD, )59 CHAPTER XLII. SOFT-FOOD BIRDS. Dr. Russ divides the foreign cage-birds into three chief categories, viz., Seed-eating Birds,Soft-food Birds, and Parrots. This classification is, no doubt, convenient, and the temptationto follow in the same path is great, yet for the purposes of this book it seemed preferable tofollow the list of the Zoological Society of London. One of the difficulties in the way of referenceis the great variety of names given to each bird by different writers, scarcely two authoritiesagreeing as to what ought to be the Latin name of a species. I shall endeavour to give all thenames under which a bird is described by scientific ornithologists, in order to enable thosewho wish to do so, to refer readily to scientific works. The first foreign bird we come to in the Zoological Societys list belongs to the orderTtu-didce, or Thrus

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