The history of singing birds :
containing an exact description of their habits & customs, & their manner of constructing their nests, their times of incubation, with the peculiar excellencies of their several songs, the method of rearing them in cages & the preparation and choice of their food, also the disorders they are subject to with the mode of treatment, including the history & management of canary birds /
translated from the French of the Count de Buffon ; the whole ornamented with copper plates from drawings after nature.

Description

Main Author

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.

Language(s)

English

Published

Edinburgh : Silvester Doig Royal Exchange, 1791.

Subjects

Birds > Birds / Behavior.
Cage birds.
Canaries.
Songbirds.

Note

In ms. on fly leaf: Wyatt Rawson, March 6th, 1858.
Engraved t.p. and half title page.
Translation of: Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.

Physical Description

192 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.

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