Philip Henry Gosse spent eighteen months in Jamaica observing birds alive rather than in the cabinet. He describes the habits, songs and nests of species from the John-crow vulture to the Tinkling that picks ticks from cattle, with notes from his friend Richard Hill, and laments how little was then known of tropical animals’ lives.
A pioneering work of field ornithology, delightful for birdwatchers and Caribbean naturalists. Download the free EPUB.