Author : Charles F. Holden
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332844961
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (449 download)
Book Synopsis Holden's Book on Birds (Classic Reprint) by : Charles F. Holden
Download or read book Holden's Book on Birds (Classic Reprint) written by Charles F. Holden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Holden's Book on Birds The differences in the voices, explained above, result from certain methods pursued by the breeders. In'the German districts each breeder tries each year to obtain certain desirable characteristics in the voices of his birds, and in a few years some thus get a reputation for breeding such special birds. There are bird-shows and singing matches with blue ribbon and other attachments, so that the exact results which each man has actually obtained are known, not alone in Germany, but in one of the best markets, New York; and to the blue ribbon man over goes our gold to buy his next year's raising, months before the eggs are laid, and nearly two years before the voices will be sold by me in New York or Boston, or perhaps to some bird lover in St. Louis or San Fran cisco, whose face I have never seen, and yet am well acquainted with him, his tastes, and daily needs, through the mail bag and telegraph wires. 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.