Excerpt from A History of British Birds, Vol. 5: Contains Forty-Seven Coloured Engravings In Ireland it was enumerated by Smith in 17 49 as one of the birds of the county of Cork, but it has long since become extinct there, as well as now in this part of the kingdom. If some feathered, 'rip Van Winkle' of the 'good old timm' could revisit the scenes he frequented in the 'days that are gone, ' he would so little recognise them' as the same, that he would not wonder that none of his kind were still to be found in haunts now ...
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Excerpt from A History of British Birds, Vol. 5: Contains Forty-Seven Coloured Engravings In Ireland it was enumerated by Smith in 17 49 as one of the birds of the county of Cork, but it has long since become extinct there, as well as now in this part of the kingdom. If some feathered, 'rip Van Winkle' of the 'good old timm' could revisit the scenes he frequented in the 'days that are gone, ' he would so little recognise them' as the same, that he would not wonder that none of his kind were still to be found in haunts now rendered so unsuitable to them. 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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