You are here

قراءة كتاب Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1

تنويه: تعرض هنا نبذة من اول ١٠ صفحات فقط من الكتاب الالكتروني، لقراءة الكتاب كاملا اضغط على الزر “اشتر الآن"

‏اللغة: English
Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1

Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1

تقييمك:
0
No votes yet
المؤلف:
دار النشر: Project Gutenberg
الصفحة رقم: 1




THE BLUE-STRIPED LORY ____ LORIUS CYANOSTRIATUS

(about four fifths Life size)


CASSELL'S

BOOK OF BIRDS.

FROM THE TEXT OF DR. BREHM.

BY

THOMAS RYMER JONES, F.R.S.,

PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.

WITH UPWARDS OF

Four Hundred Engravings, and a Series of Coloured Plates.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN;
AND NEW YORK.


CONTENTS.

  page
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION 1-22
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS  23

CRACKERS (Enucleatores).

Parrots (Psittacini). The True Parrot (Psittacinæ):—The Jako—The Amazon Parrot—The Maitakka—The  
Crested Hawk Parrot 24-43
The Dwarf Parrots (Psittacula):—Swinder's Love Bird—The Sparrow Parrot—The Siskin Parrot 43-45
Cockatoos (Plyctolophus):—The Lemon-crested Cockatoo—Leadbeater's Cockatoo—The Helmet Cockatoo—The  
Nose Cockatoo—The Nestor Cockatoo—The Eagle Cockatoo—The Casmalos—Banks's Raven  
Cockatoo—The Kakapo, or Night Parrot of New Zealand 45-57
The Araras (Aræ): The Scarlet Macaw—The Soldier Arara—The Anakan—The Ararauna—The Hyacinth-coloured  
Arara. The Parrakeets, or Conical-tailed Parrots (Conurus):—The Garuba—The  
Tiriba—The Carolina Parrakeet—The Choroy 58-66
The Long-tailed Parrots, or Parrakeets (Palæornithes):—The Collared, or Rose-ringed Parrot—The  
Bettet. The Superb Parrots (Polytelis):—The Scarlet-crested Superb Parrot—The Black-tailed  
Superb Parrot. The Grass Parrots (Platycerci):—The Rosella—The Variegated Parrot—The Waved  
Parrot—The Corella—The Ground Parrakeet 66-79
The Lories (Lorii):—The Purple-capped Lory—The Dappled Lorikeet—Swainson's Lorikeet—The Maiden  
Lorikeet—The Papuan Lory—The Blue-striped Lory 79-82

PASSERINE BIRDS (Passeres).

The Cross-bills (Loxiæ):—The Large-beaked Cross-bill—The Pine-tree Cross-bill—The Banded Cross-bill—The  
Parrot Greenfinch 85-92
The Bullfinches (Pyrrhulæ):—The Parrot Bullfinch—The Pine Grosbeak—The Carmine Grosbeak—The  
Rose Bullfinch—The Carmine Bullfinch—The Siberian Bullfinch—The Vinous Grosbeak, or Desert  
Trumpeter—The Bullfinch—The Girlitz—The Canary 92-114
The Finches (Fringillæ):—The Chaffinch—The Mountain Finch—The Snow Finch—The Winter Finch. The  
Linnets (Cannabinæ)—The Brown Linnet—The Mountain or Grey Linnet—The Birch-tree Siskin—The  
Common Siskin—The Goldfinch—The Golden Thistle Finch 114-130
The Sparrows Proper (Passeres):—The Common Sparrow—The Spanish Sparrow—The Field or Tree  

Pages