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1 HERE is no tte! English Ornithologist bebe qualified 
migration of birds than Mr Eagle Clarke, whose name ‘has ine 
inseparably associated with the problems of this difficult | but fascinating 
subject. It is certain that to the serious student mt bird migrat n the 
volumes are indispensable.”—Z7he Atheneum. Een ig, 
“Mr Eagle Clarke’s unique experience makes Khia Leia be bird inigaon! Hy very 
interesting work, As editor of the records of observations collected from the lights on 
the British and Irish coasts by a British Association Committee from 1880 to 1887 he 
found, as he tells us, that ‘vast though the data were, much desirable information was 
still ep a In order to fill these gaps he spent a month’s holiday in the Eddystone 1H 
Lighthouse, another month in even less agreeable quarters on board the Kentish Knock 
lightship in the North Sea, and further periods in Fair Isle, the Flannans, St Kilda, wi i 
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 
he has performed a more important service in reducing the great mass of ‘migration 
observations to intelligible order and explaining the singularly complex movements of #1) 
birds in and through our islands, where many routes converge. "The Ti ie 


‘(Mr Eagle Clarke’s long-looked-for work is now before us, sid | as we shoul 
expect from the pen of so able an authority, we find these two volumes crowd 
interesting and reliable information. These ‘ Studies,’ as the author is careful to 
out, do not comprise the ‘last word’ in the fascinating and intricate problems of bir 
migration, but deal solely with the author’s own experiences, helped by the records 
accumulated when he was on the British Association Committee for the Study of Bird — 
Migration, and consequently this work touches only on migrations which affect me 
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 | int 
‘migration stations,’ written from first-hand knowledge, and free from the mass of — 
wild speculations and theories which so Hida Saini dl characterise the: ahi che of an 
armchair worker. 
“(In conclusion, we may say that we have Loe but praise. for Mr Clarke’ s ie 
and congratulate him on bringing it to such a successful conclusion, It is eminently 
the product of a worker; to the beginner in the study of migration it will point out the 
right lines of investigation; to the student it gives much interesting matter for 
consideration, and it will be read with erret pleasure by every witarageainyt | 
British Birds. } i 
“Mr Eagle Clarke is to be most heartily congratulated on having: contributed 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 hima 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 santana 
be referred to.” —Country Life. 

GURNEY & JACKSO|N_ 
88 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, iS C. 
Oliver and Boyd, Printers, Edinburgh. | ay 
