HISTORY 



OF THE 



BIRDS OF EUROPE, 



NOT OBSERVED IN THE BRITISH ISLES. 



BY C. R. BREE, ESQ., M.D., F.L.S., 



Author of "Species Not Transmutable," 

 Physician to the Essex and Colchester Hospital, &c, &c. 



VOL. I. 



"Join voices all ye living souls; ye birds 

 That singing up to heaven-gate ascend 

 Bear on your wings and in your notes His praise." 



Milton's Paradise Lost. 



LONDON: 



GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW. 



M DCCC LXVI. 



