A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory
Subtitle: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology ...
By: By William Macgillivray ...
Publisher: Printed for Scott, Webster, and Geary
Published: 1837
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Notes: Vol. 4-5 published by W.S. Orr and co.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Rasores, scrapers, or gallinaceous birds; Gemitores, cooers, or pigeons; Deglubitores, huskers, or conirostral birds; Vagatores, wanderers, or crows and allied genera.; title: v. 2. Cantatores, songsters.; title: v. 3. Reptatores, creepers; Scansores, climbers; Cuculinæ; Raptores, plunderers, or rapacious birds; Excursores, snatchers; Volitatores, gliders; Jaculatores, darters.; title: v. 4. Cursores, or runners; Tentatores, or probers; Aucupatores, or stalkers; Latitores, or skulkers.; title: v. 5. Cribratores, or sifters; Urinatores, or divers; Mersatores, or plungers.