LONDON: Printed by +S. & J. Bentley+, +Wilson+, and +Fley+, Bangor House, Shoe Lane. White of Selbourne has somewhere expressed the gratification which would be afforded to him by a sight of the _hirundines_ of the “hot and distant island” of Jamaica. We know, in fact, exceedingly little of the _biography_ of tropical animals—of those details of their habits, which are to be known only by a close and continued observation of them in their woodland homes. The present volume may perhaps contribute an acceptable item to the amount of information, derived, as it is, entirely from original investigation. Nearly two hundred species of birds are thus ascertained to belong to the Jamaica Fauna, tho…
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