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Two vols. 

-WILLIAM EAGLE CLARKE, LL.D., F-R.S-Es) Fs 
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Member of the British Association Committee on the Migration of Birds aS. 
Observed on the British and Irish Coasts, and Author of its Final 


’ Reports, 1896-1903, etc. icine 
With Numerous [iustrations and Maps _ ) ate Sane. 
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migration of birds than Mr Eagle Clarke, whose name has long been — Fel 
inseparably associated with the problems of this difficult but fascinating = 
subject. It is certain that to the serious student of bird migration the 
volumes are indispensable.’"—T7he Atheneum. Bee ies the 
bd fb HERE is no other English Ornithologist better qualified to write on the ah 
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“‘Mr Eagle Clarke’s unique experience makes this study of bird migration a ve’ Ress 
interesting work, As editor of the records of observations collected from the lights’on } 4 
the British and Irish coasts by a British Association Committee from 1880 to 1887 he. : tH 
found, as he tells us, that ‘vast though the data were, much desirable non v7 a it 
stilllacking.’ In order to fill these gaps he spent a month’s holiday in the Eddyston 
Lighthonse, another month in even less agreeable quartets on board the Kentish Kn 








tion 
“Mr Eagle Clarke’s long-looked-for work is now before us, and as we shonld statis 
expect from the pen of so able an authority, we find these two volumes crowded with 
interesting and reliable information. These ‘ Studies,’ as the author is careful to point 
out, do not comiprise the ‘last word’ in the fascinating and intricate problems of bird ys 
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 the _ 
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 _ Ps 
‘migration stations,’ written from first-hand knowledge, and free from the mass of 
wild. speculations and theories which so frequently characterise the’ products of an 
armchair worker. ; : 
“In conclusion, we may say that we have nothing but praise for Mr Clarke's book, 
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 great pleasure by every ornithologist.” 
—British Birds. 
“Mr Eagle Clarke is to be most heartily congratulated on having contributed this !)/a7) 
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 aspecial — br 
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 ” 
observations to intelligible order and explaining the singularly complex movements of 
birds in and through our islands, where many routes converge,”—The Times. 

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should possess Mr Eagle Clarke's volumes, and place them where they can constantly 
be referred to.” —Couniry Life. ete 
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