1866 British Birds' Eggs and Nests

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates. With a large folding synoptical table of British-breeding birds' nests and eggs, showing site and materials of the former, and number, colour, and markings of the latter to a pocket at the rear. Collated complete. A popular work on British ornithology, looking in particular at the eggs and nests of British birds. With a guide to identification and preservation. Written by John Christopher Atkinson, an English author, antiquary, and priest. Illustrated by William Stephen Coleman, an English painter and book illustrator.