THE

CAMBRIDGE NATURAL HISTORY

EDITED BY

S. F. HARMER, Sc.D., F.R.S., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; Superintendent of the University Museum of Zoology

AND

A. E. SHIPLEY, M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; University Lecturer on the Morphology of Invertebrates

VOLUME IX

BIRDS

By A. H. Evans, M.A., Clare College, Cambridge

London
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1899
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In sicco ludunt fulicae.–Virgil.

Loons disport themselves on dry matters.