Excerpt from The Birds of God: Parallels of Man in the Feathered Creation; A Portfolio of Anecdotes Eden are the flowers Of the sun and the birds Of God. Both retain the innocence of their primitive garden days, and both perpet uate its exquisite charm - one in the pure beauty of still' life, and the other in their endless variety and grace of motion and their wealth of suggestion to the world of mankind. 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.