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The Home Life, of Wild Birds
Francis Hobart Herrick
其他書名
A New Method of the Study and Photography of Birds
出版Fb&c Limited, 2015-06-15
主題Pets / General
ISBN13305812379781330581230
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=--swtAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Excerpt from The Home Life, of Wild Birds: A New Method of the Study and Photography of Birds

In revising this work on The Home Life and Activities of Wild Birds, much has been re-written, and forty-eight new illustrations have been added to the text in place of a smaller number omitted. The first three chapters have been materially changed; Chapter XI. on Nest-Building is entirely new, as are also in large measure those which follow on The Development and Care of the Young and on Life and Instinct.

These observations were chiefly made in central New Hampshire, in the towns of Northfield and Tilton. Precise names of all species mentioned in the text are given in the Index.

The semi-technical parts will naturally appeal most to students, but I hope they will not be without interest to the general reader.

The field of animal behavior in the direction of both observation and experiment is of boundless extent, while on the side of inference it is full of pitfalls. Even if I have not successfully avoided the latter in every case, I have been continually on my guard.

My thanks are specially due to the publishers of this volume, who have forwarded my wishes in every possible way. I am also indebted to the editors of the Century Magazine, and of Bird Lore for permission to use certain material which has already appeared in their pages, and to all critics of the earlier edition who have appreciated my efforts.

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