Excerpt from A Consideration of Some Ornithological Literature, Vol. 1: With Extracts From Current Criticism; 1876 to 1883 The paper includes notices of at out one hundred species, with quite copious notes respecting the habits of a considerable proportion oi them, with, in some cases, descriptions of their nests and eggs. 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.