Our Native Songsters

Anne Pratt wrote Our Native Songsters for everyday readers, and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published it i...

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Anne Pratt wrote Our Native Songsters for everyday readers, and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published it in London; these mid-Victorian plates show the resident and visiting songbirds it describes. They range from sparrows, goldfinches and blackbirds to pipits, buntings and birds of reed and marsh, with crossbills and hawfinches showing off their distinctive bills and martins and warblers adding further variety. Some captions keep older names such as water ouzel and mountain linnet. The mix of garden birds and rarer visitors suited readers building a wider knowledge of British birdlife.

Anne Pratt wrote Our Native Songsters for everyday readers, and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published it in London; these mid-Victorian plates show the resident and visiting songbirds it describes. They range from sparrows, goldfinches and blackbirds to pipits, buntings and birds of reed and marsh, with crossbills and hawfinches showing off their distinctive bills and martins and warblers adding further variety. Some captions keep older names such as water ouzel and mountain linnet. The mix of garden birds and rarer visitors suited readers building a wider knowledge of British birdlife.

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