C 1 «^™^LP«?% 



lllSTCP 



BRITISH BIRDS, 



INDIGENOUS AND MIGRATORY: 



INCLUDING 



THEIR OKGANIZATION, HABITS, AND RELATIONS; 



REMARKS ON CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE; 



AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL ORGANS OF BIRDS, AND 



OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO PRACTICAL 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



ILLUSTRATED BY 



NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS. 



BY Vv^ILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY, A.M., LL.D. 



PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY, AND LECTURER ON BOTANY, IN MARISCHAL 

 COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY, ABERDEEN; 



MEMBER OF THE WERNER1A.N NATURAL HISTORY AND ROYAL PHYSICAL SOCIETIES OF EDINBURGH, OF THE 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES OF BOSTON AND PHILADELPHIA, OF THE LYCEUM OF NEW YORK, 



OF THE LITEHARlf AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OP SOUTH CAROLINA, ETC. 



VOL. V. 



ORIBEATORES, OE SIFTERS. 



URINATOEES, OR DIVERS. 



MERSATORES, OR PLUNGERS. 



LONDON : 



willia:\i s. orr anu co., amen CORNEE, 



PATERNOSTER ROW. 

 1852. 



