Rare Books

A discourse on the emigration of British birds; or, This question at last solv'd: whence come the stork and the turtle, the crane and the swallow, when they know and observe the appointed time of their coming? : Containing a curious, particular, and circumstantial account of the respective retreats of all those birds of passage, which visit our island at the commencement of spring, and depart at the approach of winter; as the cuckow, turtle, stork, crane, quail, goat-sucker, the swallow tribe, nightingale, black-cap, wheat-ear, stone-chat, whin-chat, willow-wren, white-throat, etotoli, fly-catcher, &c. &c. Also, a copious, entertaining, and satisfactory relation of winter birds of passage: among which are the woodcock, snipe, fieldfare, red-wing, royston crow, dotterel, &c. &c. Shewing the different countries to which they retire, the place where they breed, and how they perform their annual emigrations, &c. With a short account of those birds, that migrate occasionally, or only shift