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Title: Historical view of the progress of discovery on the more northern coasts of America (microform) : from the earliest period to the present time
Identifier: cihm_49878 (find matches)
Year: 1833 (1830s)
Authors: Tytler, Patrick Fraser, 1791-1849; Wilson, James, 1795-1856
Subjects: Cabot, Sebastian, 1476?-1557; Cabot, Sebastian, 1476?-1557; Natural history; Sciences naturelles
Publisher: Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd; London : Simpkin & Marshall
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:=««*^ 1 V H: BIRDg. 357 ;; ii 21 'â m CHAPTER VII. The Birds of the Northern Regions of America. Turkey Buzzard _ Golden-eade _ Bald^agleâHawksâOwlsâ Butcher-birds-King-bird-Northern TyrantâAmerican Water- ?^^/^--^fi-^re^sted Thrushâ Blue-birdâArctic Biue-birdâ Ledar-bird, or American Chatterer âSnow-bunting â Painted BuntingâPine-^rosbeakâEvening-grosbeakâScarlet Tanatjer âCuckoo-buntingâCrows-WoodpeckersâHumming-birds^â SwallowsâBelted Kingfisher - Grouse âPassenger-pigeon- Grallatores-Natatores-Gulls-Rocky Mountain Golden-eve âBewick s SwanâTrumpeter-swan -White PelicanâGreat Northern DiverâBlack-throated DiverâGuillemots. The difficulties attending the completion of an ornitho- lo^j) history were complained of by Buffon, and the chief of these was stated by that illustrious observer as consisting in the fact that naturalists were already ac- quainted with 800 species of the class; and he farther expressed his opinion that there might actuaUy exist 1500 or even 2000 different kinds of birds. Now, as nearly 6000 species of the feathered race have been ascertained up to the present period, and many new species are in the course of being discovered and described during every successive year, our readers may form some opinion of the laborious toU attencUng the researches of these " de- generate days," in which people of such inferior capacity to the French PHny have to grapple with a subject so in. hmtely more encumbered. No doubt the division of la- bour has been more attended to since the greater exten- sion of the field of exercise, and Buffon's briUiant genius was too often satisfied with vague generahties, unsup- portable in proportion to the increase of that more defi- nite knowledge which has been recently acquired. With an intellect so excitable and full of thought, and n flov-' of language so powerful and persuasive, it was no marvel that such a naturalist should have outstripped for a season «i I fi." .â â â
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