Birds useful and birds harmful

Otto Herman

CONTENTS

Preface.

CHAPTER I. Useful or Harmful?

CHAPTER II. The Structure of the Bird.

CHAPTER III. WORKERS ON THE GROUND. The Barn Owl: White or Church Owl. ( Strix Flammea. )

[Image not available] CHAPTER IV. IN THE AIR AND ON THE TREES. The Swallow. ( Hirundo rustica. )

CHAPTER V. SUMMER WORKERS. The Wryneck. ( Iynx torquilla. )

CHAPTER VI. WORKERS ALL THE YEAR ROUND. The House Sparrow. ( Passer domesticus. )

CHAPTER VII. SOME WILDFOWL. The Lapwing. ( VanEllus vulgAris. )

CHAPTER VIII. SOME OF THE FALCONIDAE. The Golden Eagle. ( Aquila chrysAEtus. )

CHAPTER IX. Rational Bird Protection.

IN CONCLUSION.

Index.

Contents.

Some typographical errors have been corrected; a list follows the text.

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Birds Useful and Birds
Harmful

Sherratt & Hughes
Publishers to the Victoria University of Manchester
Manchester: 34 Cross Street
London: 33 Soho Square, W.

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THE BEARDED TIT.
See page 203.

BIRDS USEFUL

and

BIRDS HARMFUL

BY
OTTO HERMAN
Director of the Royal Hungarian Ornithological Bureau, Budapest

AND

J. A. OWEN
Author of the “Country Month by Month,” etc.,
and Editor of all signed “A Son of the Marshes.”

Illustrated by T. CsÖrgey.

MANCHESTER
At the University Press
1909

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