Our Common Cuckoo: And Other Cuckoos and Parasitical Birds; An Attempt to Reach a True Theory of Them by Comparative Study of Habit and Function; With a Thorough Criticism and Exposure of Darwin''s Views and Romanes''s Views and Those of Their Folowers - Hardcover

Alexander H. Japp

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0267637896 ISBN 13: 9780267637898

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Our Common Cuckoo: And Other Cuckoos and Parasitical Birds; An Attempt to Reach a True Theory of Them by Comparative Study of Habit and Function; With a Thorough Criticism and Exposure of Darwin's Views and Romanes's Views and Those of Their Folowers

The reader will find as he proceeds that the single species - our cuckoos - soon leads to questions of larger interest - questions, indeed, of the highest scientific interest, in which not only birds, but many other species are more or less involved.

I have to thank Dr. Bowdler Sharpe and Mr. Saunders at South Kensington for aid, and Mr. E.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0267637896
• ISBN 13: 9780267637898
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320