1870 BEETON'S BOOK OF BIRDS PARROTS Keeping BRITISH SONGSTERS HAWKING TAXIDERMY

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PLEASE VIEW MY PICTURES WHICH FOLLOW THIS DESCRIPTION Book measures 5 x 7 inches with 252 pages + 4 page publisher's list to rear BEETON'S BOOK of BIRDS SHOWING HOW TO REAR AND MANAGE THEM IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH Published by Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Dorset Buildings, Salisbury Square, E.C. London Undated c. 1870. ( With pen inscriptions dated 1884 ) ILLUSTRATED with 6 full-page chromolithograph plates - all very clean, all as called for TOGETHER with 95 intext woodcut engravings FROM DESIGNS by HARRISON WEIR and R. HUTTULA ( Engraved by H. N Woods and C. W. Sheeres) AN EXTREMELY SCARCE TITLE IN A COMPLETE WELL PRESERVED CONDITION CONTENTS INCLUDE:- THE PARROT TRIBES - Stories of famous Parrots, Varieties of the Parrot Tribe, Parrakeets, The Macaws, The Cockatoos, The Lories, Parrot's Cages and Perches, Training and Treatment, Diseases of Parrots. THE BRITISH TALKING-BIRDS - The Raven, The Jackdaw, The Jay, The Starling, Lessons in Talking, The Magpie, Pilfering Habits, Hawking at the Magpie. BRITISH SONG-BIRDS - Cages, How to teach them to sing - The Finches, Bird traps, Singing Matches etc. THE CANARY - Breeding, Cages, etc. THE NIGHTINGALE, GREENFINCH, SKYLARK & TITMICE etc. HAWKING-BIRDS - The Antiquity of Hawking, THE GOSHAWK, PEREGRINE FALCON, GER-FALCON, THE HOBBY, MERLIN, SPARROW-HAWK, THE KESTRIL read more

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