Excerpt from The Zoologist, 1899, Vol. 3: A Monthly Journal of Natural History In this volume more attention has been paid to the many interesting questions relative to the progress of organic evolution. Such titles as Fecundity in each Avine Species, varying according to Accident of Locality; Varying Fecundity in Birds; The Coloration of British Birds and their Eggs; Mimicry, &c., tell their own tale, and prove that 'the Zoologist, ' though conservative as to fact, cannot be pronounced as illiberal to theory. We shall not write the centuries by the numerals 18 again; may the new figures bring prosperity to our Science and its votaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Reproduced from rare original worth $5,000, great nature classic covers 200 species of ducks. Exhaustive, unsurpassed study. Includes illustrations by Fuertes, Brooks, others. 74 full-color plates, 102 black-and-white plates, 117 maps. Clothbound. 4 volumes bound as two.