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The history of singing birds : containing an exact description of their habits & customs, & their manner of constructing their nests, their times of incubation; with the peculiar excellencies of their several songs, the method of rearing them in cages & the preparation and choice of their food ; also the disorders they are subject to with the mode of treatment, including the history & management of canary birds / Translated from the French of the Count de Buffon.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
- Standardized Title:
- Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. English. Selections.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Birds--Behavior.
- Birds.
- Canaries.
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 192 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Printed for Silvester Doig ..., 1791.
- Notes:
- "Experiments and observations on the singing of birds extracted from a curious letter on that subject, written by the Honourable Daines Barrington, to M. Maty": p.164-192.
- Translation of selections from: Histoire Naturelle des oiseaux.
- Engraved title-page.
- OCLC:
- 5108730
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