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tific nature placing on record the results of bird marking and other 

 investigations being carried out at Skokliolm. Some small evidence 

 of this work you will have seen in the graphs, maps, and other material 

 exhibited in the library this evening. 



Finally, it may be suggested that catching and handling birds must 

 disturb them unduly. On the contrary, by gentle handling many 

 birds have become so used to us that they are almost tame ; as tame, 

 in fact, as wild animals become in nature reserves where they have 

 learned that no harm will come to them from human beings. Indeed, 

 if the birds did not become reasonably tame it would be impossible to 

 study them individually. This way of studying birds by ringing them 

 is a good deal better than the old way of studying them by means of 

 the gun and the collecting box. Ringing establishes a new kind of 

 contact, a sort of friendly conspiracy with the living bird. 



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2. Lockley, R. M. 



1931. Further notes on the breeding habits of the Manx shearwater. Brit- 



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