

X BOOK OF BIRDS 



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BY 



W. P. PYCRAFT, A.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Member of the British Ornithologists' Union; Hon. Member American 



Ornithologists' Union ; Vice=President of the Selborne Sodlety 



Assistant in the Zoological Department of the British 



Museum ; Author of " Story of Bird 



Life." etc., etc. 



WITH 30 FULL-PAGE COLOURED PLATES 

 AND MANY ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT 



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LONDON 

 SIDNEY APPLETON 

 1908 



