Excerpt from Birds of the Wave and Woodland F we had to distribute the Seasons among the birds that are called British, selecting a notable fowl to represent each, we could hardly overlook the claims of the cuckoo, the nightingale, and the swallow to distinction. But, after all, these are not thorough Britons. They only come to us for our summer, and when that goes they follow it. Though great numbers of them are British-born, they are at best only anglo-continental, anglo-asiatic, anglo-african, and Inter - Oceanic. But ...
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Excerpt from Birds of the Wave and Woodland F we had to distribute the Seasons among the birds that are called British, selecting a notable fowl to represent each, we could hardly overlook the claims of the cuckoo, the nightingale, and the swallow to distinction. But, after all, these are not thorough Britons. They only come to us for our summer, and when that goes they follow it. Though great numbers of them are British-born, they are at best only anglo-continental, anglo-asiatic, anglo-african, and Inter - Oceanic. But our resourceful little islands give us native birds, all our own, that amply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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