Download or read book Cassell's Natural History, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) written by Peter Martin Duncan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cassell's Natural History, Vol. 4 Divers - Characters - the auks - The Great Auk - Probably extinct - The Razor-bill The guillemot-mr. Seebohm's Notes of Visits to their Breeding - places - The Experiences of a Glimmer - The Rotche - The Puffins - The True Divers - The European Species - The Grebes - The Little Grebe, or Dabchick - The Dabchick's Powers of Diving - the penguins - Distinctive Features - A Penguin Rookery - Life in a Johnnie Colony Their Nests - Their Habits - the tinamous - Their Place in the Class Aves - Their Appearance - Habits the struthious birds - Their Characters - Entirely Terrestrial - Odd Use of the \ving in Running - Feathering - Distribution - the ostriches - Characters - the ostrich - Mention in History - Scriptural References - Distribution - How the Bushman Hunts the Ostrich - Method adopted in Morocco Other Modes of Hunting - An Omnivorous Bird - Its stride-its Cry - Habits - Its Resemblance to a Camel - The Feathers - Exportation of Feathers from Africa - A Visit to an Ostrich Farm - Use of Incubators - Habits of the Birds in the Enclosures - The Ostrich Dance - The Rheas, or American Ostriches - the cassowaries Characters of the Cassowary - The Mooruk - Its Extraordinary Power of Leaping - Dr. Bennett's Account of its Habits - The Emus - Characters - Habits - Emu Beef - Threatened Extermination - Its Booming Note - the kivvis-characters - S ies - Dr. Buller's Account of its Habits - Mr. Bartlett's Note on its Attempts at. 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.