Name/Title
"Birds of Eastern Canada"Entry/Object ID
982.7.3Description
Soft covered book entitled "Birds of Eastern Canada" by P.A. Taverner. Published by the Dept. of Mines, Printer To The King's Most Excellent Majesty 1922. This book has a beige cardboard cover which has become detached, and it is waterstained on the cover and inside. It contains many colour and black and white sketches of birds.
Front cover is brown. There is a black border. Inside the border at the top is a drawing of Canada Geese (10), they go from big to small. At the bottom in block letters"
BIRDS
OF
EASTERN
CANADA
The back two pages have coloured photos of birds pasted.
Scope of the book:
This work covers all the birds that the ordinary observer is likely to meet with between the Atlantic coast and the prairies north of the International Boundary. The region forms a natural zoological area, including what may be called the eastern woodlands of Canada, a farily homogeneous section, physically, geographically, and zoologically. The prairies are radically different in character and, consequently, exhibit an entirely different aspect of bird life. The birds of the open are naturally different from those of the woodlands; hence Manitoba has been taken as the western boundary of the zoological area dealt with in this book
Although not a scientifically complete check-list of the birds of easstern Canada, this book is nearly so. A fes species whose Canadian status is doubtful, and some of extreme rarity or of accidental occurence, have been disregarded. The utmost freedom has been used in this respect and species have been admitted freely upon the basis of expediency; some as being of probable occurence and to be looked for, othere as illustrating some point of general interest more plainly than regular native species, and some because in he past they have been confused with commoner forms.
Physical Description: 6 1/2" x 10" x 1" thick
16.5cm x 25cm x 2.5cm thick
Soft Covered
290 pages