he has performed a more important service in reducing the great mass of 
_ expect from the pen of so able an authority, we find these two volumes crowded w 


ibeeiber of the British Association Committes, he aot ee ° 
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inseparably associated with the problems of this difficult bat pee ene 
subject. It is certain that to the serious student of bird ites the 
volumes are Dat hp. ‘The Atheneum. _ : } 



lightship in ‘the North Sea, and further periods in Fair Isle, the Flannans, ‘St ‘Kilda, nit 
and other outlying islands. His investigations, especially those on Fair Isle, have” 
added considerably to our knowledge of the occurrence of rare species in Britain ; but 
migration j 
observations to intelligible order and explaining the singularly complex movements of 
birds in and through our islands, where many routes converge, fie he Ti 7mes. % i 

















“Mr Eagle Clarke's long-looked-for work is now before us, and as ‘we 2 ante 
interesting and reliable information, These ‘Studies,’ as the author is careful to point 
out, do not comprise the ‘last word’ in the fascinating and intricate problems of 
migration, but deal solely with the author's own experiences, helped by the reco! nt 
accumulated when he was on the British Association Committee for the Study of Bir 
Migration, and consequently this work touches only on migrations which affect the. ay 
British Isles. On this score we find the work all the more pleasing, as here we have a 
book which is the result of years of observation in many remote and eminently suitable, 
‘migration stations,’ written from first-hand knowledge, and free from the mass of 
wild speculations and theories which so frequently characterise the Hera bah an 
armchair worker. | abel 
“In conclusion, we may say that we have nothing but praise for Mr Clarke! s ‘toa 
and congratulate him on bringing it to such a successful conclusion. “It is eminently Bi 
the product of a worker ; to the beginner in the study of migration it will point out the | 
tight lines of, investigation; to the student it gives much interesting matter for i 
consideration, and it will be. read with great pleasure by Gine. ornithologist.” 
—British Birds. aE : ml Me 
“Mr Eagle Clarke is to be most heartily cong tatulitell on having dabiibuted this 
extremely valuable and delightfully written monograph on one of the most interesting — 
subjects in the world ; and there can be no doubt that his countrymen owe him a special 
debt of gratitude for having placed at their disposal an immense amount of the most 
valuable information which has taken him so many years to collect. All bird- lovers 
should possess Mr Eagle Clarke’s volumes, and place them where they can’ rien { 
be referred to,”—Country Life. 

GURNEY & JACKSOIN 
88 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, E.C. 
Oliver and Boyd, Printers, Edinburgh. 

