Just Published. 2 vols, Square Demy 8vo. 18s net 



STUDIES IN BIRD-MIGRATION 



BY WILLIAM EAGLE CLARKE, F.R.S.E., F.L.S. 



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. 



With Numerous Illustrations and Maps 



EXTRACTS FROM A FEW PRES5 NOTICES 



" / I A HERE is no other English Ornithologist better qualified to write on the 



I migration of birds than Mr Eagle Clarke, whose name has long been 



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." — The Athenceum. 



" Mr Eagle .Clarke's unique experience makes this study of bird migration a 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 lacking.' In order to fill these gaps he spent a month's holiday in the Eddystone 

 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, 

 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 

 observa Ions to intelligible order and explaining the singularly complex movements of 

 birds in and through our islands, where many routes converge." — The Times. 



" Mr Eagle Clarke's long-looked-for work is now before us, and as we should 

 expect irom 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 comprise the ' last word ' in the fascinating and intricate problems of bird 

 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 

 ' 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 

 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 constantly 

 be referred to." — Country Life. 



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