WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
Bird Watching cover

Bird Watching

Chapter 17: TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

The author records close field observations of shorebirds, waterfowl, woodland and garden species, organized by species and habitat across short chapters. Detailed natural-history notes describe courtship and nuptial flights, aerial combats, feeding, nesting, social interactions, and seasonal behaviors, often rendered through vivid descriptive passages. Anecdotal episodes and patient, time-stamped notes emphasize observational method and restraint in generalization. Practical vignettes — from saltmarshes and cliffs to straw-stacks and greenwoods — are accompanied by engravings and photogravures that illustrate key poses and behaviors, producing a readable, empirically grounded series of portraits of bird life.

THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED

ST BERNARD'S ROW, EDINBURGH


TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Dialectic and archaic spellings have been maintained. Obvious misspellings and other printing errors have been fixed as detailed below. Corrections are shown in the text like this. Mousing over the change will show the original text.

The cover was produced at PGDP.net and is in the public domain.

Page vii (LoI): Great Skuas: ... 100
Originally: Great Skuas: ... 101
Page vii (LoI): On a Guillemot Ledge
Originally: On a Guillemot-ledge
Page vii (LoI): In a Sand-Pit ... 328
Originally: In a Sand-Pit ... 329
Page 12: même jeu
Originally: meme jeu
Facing page 12 (caption): Dancing of Great Plovers in Autumn
Originally: Autumn "Dancings" of the Great Plover
Page 18: of Cervantes' creation
Originally: of Cervante's creation
Page 25: il faut rendre à cela
Originally: il faut rendre a cela
Page 29 (caption): Master and Pupil: Hooded-Crow flying with Peewits
Originally: Master and Pupil
Page 46: sans cérémonie
Originally: sans ceremonie
Page 50: à deux
Originally: a deux
Page 51: is fairly over. In full flight,
Originally: is fairly over. "In full flight,
Page 54: creaky, see-sawey note
Originally: creaky, sea-sawey note
Page 88: or, at any rate, a something
Originally: or, at anyrate, a something
Page 89: à trois
Originally: a trois
Page 99: vis-à-vis
Originally: vis-a-vis
Facing page 100 (caption): Great Skuas: Nuptial Flight and Pose
Originally: Great Skuas: a nuptial pose
Page 105: and acts in the same way on the next occasion
Originally: and acts in the some way on the next occasion
Page 110: en évidence
Originally: en evidence
Page 122: when thus aerially delivered
Originally: when thus aerialy delivered
Page 127: gulls, but occasionally the great skua also, this last,
Originally: gulls, but ocasionally the great skua also, this last,
Page 140: may be called conspicuous, at any rate
Originally: may be called conspicuous, at anyrate
Page 147: Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galere?
Originally: Que diable allait il faire dans cette galere?
Page 150 (caption): Habet! Great-Crested Grebe Attacked by Another Under Water.
Originally: Crested Grebe
Page 161: became in some degree truly aquatic,
Originally: became in some degree truly acquatic,
Page 172: vis-à-vis
Originally: vis-a-vis
Page 176: gargoyle-like
Originally: gargoil-like
Page 211: sauve-qui-peut
Originally: sauve qui peut
Page 227: sauve-qui-peut
Originally: sauve qui peut
Page 254 (caption): Fairy Artillery: Willow-Warbler Pecking Catkins in Flight.
Originally: Fairy Artillery
Page 283 (footnote 21): Je m'en doute
Originally: Je me'en doute
Page 313: Vergessene Träume erwachen
Originally: Vergessene Traüme erwachen
Page 331: en état
Originally: en etat

In the index, page numbers were missing on the following entries and were supplied by the transcriber:

  • Under Robin,
  • an example of sexual selection acting in two directions 318
  • Under Thought-transference,
  • may be, in some ways, superior to speech 223
  • Under Wheatear,
  • conduct of rival males similar to that of nightingales 308