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Reptiles and Birds / A Popular Account of Their Various Orders, With a Description of the Habits and Economy of the Most Interesting — Louis Figuier

Reptiles and Birds / A Popular Account of Their Various Orders, With a Description of the Habits and Economy of the Most Interesting

Louis Figuier

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 548 pages

A popular nineteenth-century natural history survey of reptiles and birds, describing their orders, habits, and ways of life. Louis Figuier writes for general readers, and the book is illustrated with many woodcuts. It is worth listening to as a window into Victorian-era science writing.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. REPTILES AND BIRDS.
  2. PREFACE.
  3. CONTENTS.
  4. ERRATA.
  5. INTRODUCTORY.
  6. CHAPTER I. AMPHIBIA, OR BATRACHIANS.
  7. CHAPTER II. OPHIDIAN REPTILES, OR TRUE SNAKES.
  8. CHAPTER III. The Order of Lizards.—Saurians.
  9. CHAPTER IV. CHELONIANS, OR SHIELDED REPTILES.
  10. BIRDS.
  11. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
  12. CHAPTER I. THE NATATORES, OR SWIMMING BIRDS.
  13. CHAPTER II. DUCKS, GEESE, SWANS, AND PELICANS.
  14. CHAPTER III. THE LARIDÆ.
  15. CHAPTER IV. GRALLATORES, OR WADING BIRDS.
  16. CHAPTER V. GALLINACEOUS BIRDS.
  17. CHAPTER VI. SCANSORES, OR CLIMBERS.
  18. CHAPTER VII. PASSERINES.
  19. CHAPTER VIII. RAPTORES, OR BIRDS OF PREY.
  20. FOOTNOTES.
  21. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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