Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum (Natural History), Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum (Natural History), Vol. 1: Ratitæ, Carinatæ (Tinamiformes-Lariformes) British India.' That he has performed his task conscientiously will be easily perceptible from a perusal of the following pages. The Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum now exceeds a total of specimens. It was arranged and labelled some few years ago by Miss Emily Mary Sharpe, under the direction of the late Mr. Henry Seebohm and her father, Dr. Bowdler Sharpe. On that occasion Mr. Seebohm presented to the Trustees the whole of his collection of eggs of Palaearctic Birds, and an opportunity was thus offered of re-arranging the entire series in the Museum. At the same time the valuable donations of Mr. A. O. Hume, Messrs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.