Excerpt from Ornithological Other Oddities IT has always been my belief that the man in the street has more interest in natural history, as in other intellectual matters, than eclectics would credit him with; and hence I venture to offer to the public this series of chapters on various topics connected with animal - especially bird - life, which I have had reason to suppose would prove interesting to the general reader. 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.