Our survey of marine ornithology can scarcely be considered complete without a brief allusion to the various land birds that reside upon the coast.
Examples occasionally occur on our eastern and southern coasts especially, but the bird is too rare to form any feature in the ornithologyof the British seaboard.
Gesner, who published his Ornithology in 1555, seems not even to have seen them.
A Handbook ofOrnithology of the Region Drained by the Missouri River and its Tributaries.
June, of all the months, the student of ornithology can least afford to lose.
Indeed, I am acquainted with scarcely any writer on ornithologywhose head is not muddled on the subject of our three prevailing song-thrushes, confounding either their figures or their songs.
The leaves of his book on ornithology may be a quarter of a mile square, but what can not be read on one day may be read on some other.
All through the realm of ornithology the male bird has the brightest colors and does the singing.
One may learn secrets of ornithology in the garden which the books will not yield up.
III THE BROWN ROCK-CHAT The standard books on Indian ornithology give inaccurate accounts of the distribution of some species of birds.
Popular books on Indian ornithology resemble one another in that a ripple of humour runs through each.
We can thoroughly recommend this book to all not versed in ornithology and who wish to know our birds without having to kill them.
William Bartram gave important assistance and encouragement to the friendless Scotch pedagogue, Alexander Wilson, while the latter was preparing his American Ornithology for the press.
All but the last volume of his American Ornithology were completed when the overworked naturalist died.
The most common, and certainly the most facetious, individual of the ornithology is the tui (parson-bird).
In the annals of ornithology I know of no other instance of birds getting intoxicated.
In spite of this fact it will remain to the American student a classic, holding a place in the domain of entomology analogous to that which is held in the science of ornithology by the "Birds of America," by Audubon.
Witmer Stone, in a paper read at the meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in San Francisco, last May, outlines the development of western ornithology prior to 1850.
For the occurrence of Procellariadae during our outward voyage, with a view to determine the geographical distribution of the species met with by me, see Contributions to Ornithology by Sir W.
I have no doubt, however, that any one resident in the Islands for some years, and taking an interest in the ornithology of the district, would be able to add considerably to my list, as Miss C.
Ornithology was especially interesting, combining as it did observation of birds in their natural haunts and conditions.
In his Notes on theOrnithology of Labrador, in Proc.
The ornithology of the West, so far as a limited acquaintance will warrant assertion, embraces many of the most magnificent of the feathered creation.
People ignorant of Ornithology will stare like the Bird of Wisdom himself on being told that an OWL is an Eagle.
We remember the time when the very word Ornithologywould have required interpretation in mixed company; when a naturalist was looked on as a sort of out-of-the-way but amiable monster.
It is true that the student of ornithology often feels compelled to take bird-life.
Indeed, there are few better places to study ornithology than in the orchard.
Practical ornithology is a science that can boast of a very large number of devotees.
Ornithology as a science is modern, at best not over two centuries and a half old, while as a popular pursuit its age is better reckoned by decades.
Ornithology has received unwonted attention of late, not only in scientific works but also in popular literature, and it has taken at last a deserved place upon the curriculum of many of our colleges and secondary schools.
His introduction was effected in part by people who ought to have known better, and would, doubtless, if the science of ornithology had reached its present status as long ago as the early Fifties.
Without question the most deplorable event in the history of American ornithology was the introduction of the English Sparrow.
Ornithology is the furthest refined of the systematic sciences.
I would emphasise the fact that this book is a mere key, and as such is of necessity a collection of the dry bones of ornithology and devoid of any literary merit.
Except for its somewhat smaller size it is indistinguishable from the English skylark, and all books on Indian ornithology state that this bird soars up into the heavens and pours forth its song just as the lark does in England.
The common name of the subject of this sketch is the brown-capped rosy finch; in the scientific works on ornithology he is called the brown-capped leucosticte.
A man's observations may embrace a wider range, and he may add more species to the science of ornithology than his sister, but she will be likely to discover facts about the commonest fowl that he will overlook.
I have hopes that he may be induced to publish a full account of his observations upon the ornithology of Yucatan.
The ornithology of the future must be ready to give an answer to the further question how these divergences of anatomy and temperament originated.
Marvin," cried Amy, "is not the study of ornithology rather a formidable undertaking?
Marvin exclaimed, exultingly: "Miss Amy, you can begin the study of ornithology at once.
