Our Female Supernumaries. In a Series of Views
Anon
Genre: | Essay, Drollery |
Subjects: | Natural History, Ornithology |
Points out that the 'Cockney's Sportsman's game-list' includes a bird called the 'chaffinch' which Carl Linnaeus called the 'Fingilla cœlebs' because in Swedish winters, 'the females migrate, and leave the males bachelors'. | |
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