EXTINCT BIRDS. 



An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of 

 those Birds which have become extinct in historical 

 times— that is, within the last six or seven 

 hundred years. To which are 

 added a few which still 

 exist, but are on 

 the verge of 

 extinction. 



BY 



The Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, 

 Ph. D., F.Z.S. 



With 45 Coloured Plates, embracing 63 subjects, and 

 other illustrations. 



LONDON. 



Hutchinson & Co., Paternoster Row, E.C. 

 1907 



