Excerpt from The Annals of Scottish Natural History: A Quarterly Magazine With Which Is Incorporated "the Scottish Naturalist" As a man and a friend it is impossible to speak of him in terms too high. His great Strength of character, his amiable disposition, his honourable nature, his helpfulness to all who sought his aid, won for him a host of friends; and we doubt if he ever made a single enemy. The death of such a man is very greatly to be deplored on many grounds. It may interest the readers of the Annals to know that before he died, Mr. Saunders expressed the desire that Mr. Eagle Clarke should edit such future editions of his British Birds as might be called for, and that all his notes have been placed in Mr. Eagle Clarke's hands for that purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.