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A History of British Birds, Vol. 3 : With Coloured Illustrations of Their Eggs (Classic Reprint) by Henry Seebohm

Excerpt from A History of British Birds, Vol. 3: With Coloured Illustrations of Their Eggs Ornithologists may roughly be divided into four classes, according to the four points of view from which they study birds. The ideal ornithologist studies his favourite science from every point of view; but unfortunately the men to whose ornithological work this chapter is devoted have been by no means ideal students, and, with scarcely an exception, they will be found to fall naturally into one or other of the four following groups: - First, those who study the bodies of birds in the dissecting-room; second, those who study the skins of birds in the museum; third, those who study ornithological literature in the library; and, fourth, those who watch living birds in their native haunts. Of these the morphologists (the men who form the first group) are more especially a class apart: to them we must ultimately look for a true classification of birds; but this is a work of the future, though much progress has been made in this department since the theory of the gradual evolution of species, in consequence of the accumulated results during many generations of descent with slight modification, has been generally accepted. To be a good ornithological morphologist it is necessary to have a knowledge of the morphology of all vertebrate animals and to know something of that of the invertebrates. The widely different branches of morphology are so complex, that in the present state of the science it requires a lifetime devoted to each before reliable results can be anticipated; and we must look forward to a second generation of morphologists, working on evolutionary lines, before the discrepancies in the views of the various specialists can be collated and sufficiently harmonized to make a classification of birds possible. Anatomists will find abundant fields of labour to illustrate or correct the conclusions which Huxley has drawn from a study of the bones of the palate. We want half a dozen other Huxleys to study and compare other parts of the skeleton with the same care and judgment. It cannot be supposed that Nitzsch has exhausted the lessons to be learnt from a contemplation of the various plans in which the feathers are distributed on the surface of birds. 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.

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