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54raphs, others arc compilations of varying value, 

 whilst others cmbodv careful observations of 

 great value, but for all there seems to be a public 

 reaclv to buv. 



hand information, and the author has brought 

 together such a wonderful wealth of material that 

 cannot fail to interest. Whether we turn to his 

 account of the various methods of locomotion, the 



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A lialf-fledged specimen, showing its niethnd of c1inil)iiij>; with bill, 



wings, and feet. (From Finn's ''Bird Behaviour." j 



Of recent bird books we have seen none 

 embodying so much that appealed to the lover 

 and student of the ways and habits of birds as 

 the volume now before us. Here we have lirsl- 



nulrllion and manipulation of food, tlie methods 

 of feeding the young, the different modes 'f 

 feather-development, nest-making, types of nests, 

 migration, or to the senses and emotions of birds, 



