THE ''COUNTRY LIFE" LIBRARY . 



A Book which the Aberdeen Free Press says " includes a 

 combination of all the talents on Sea-birds." 



Our Goramon Sea birds 



Cormorants, Terns, Gulls, Skuas, Petrels, and Auks. 

 by percy r. lowe, b.a., m.b., b.c. 



With Chapters by Bentley Beetham, Francis Heatherley, W. R. Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Oliver G. Pike, W. P. Pycraft, A. J. Roberts, etc 



Large quarto, cloth, gilt, over 300 pages and nearly 250 illustrations. 



15 - net, inland postage 7d. extra. 



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NLTKE the majority of books deahng with birds, this volume is of interest 

 to the general reader and to the student of ornithology alike. It is a book 



that enables the reader to 

 identify our sea-birds by 

 name, to understand their 

 movements, their habits, 

 their nests, and their eggs. 

 Dr. Lowe, during many 

 yachting trips round the 

 British Islands, in the 

 Mediterranean, and across 

 the Atlantic, has had ex- 

 ceptional opportunities of 

 studying the habits and 

 life histories of our sea-birds, 

 and this book, in addition 

 to embodying much 

 valuable information from 

 the latest records, contains 

 a large number of new facts 

 and original theories of 

 intense interest to all. The 

 Introductory pages and 

 the chapters on the Flight 

 of Birds deserve the closest 

 attention. 



The Illustrations are of 

 extraordinary merit and 

 - -' beauty. They exhibit in a 

 marked degree the result 

 not only of the skill, know- 

 ledge, and ingenuity of the 

 photographers, but of their 

 high enthusiasm and un- 

 wearying patience. 



The Observer says : " We marvel at the snapshots that have been taken of birds. Every 

 movement of the r flight is now recorded ; the taking off. the alighting, the swooping, the settling, 

 the planing,' the struggling against the wind. And they are just the birds which the ordinary man 

 wants to know about, because he has such opportunities of seeing them for himself on any walk 

 along the cliff. The photographs have been taken by various hands, and. with Dr. Lowe's simple 

 and excellent text, make a book that will add immeasurably not only to the memorv of any holiday 

 by the sea. but to the holiday itself. It is one of the most attractive and useful ' bird-books ' we 

 have seen for some time." 



Ip.t.o. 



