Our Common 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. R. PYCRAFT, 



A. J. ROBERTS, etc. 



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



PRICE 15/- NET. 

 Inland postage 7d. extra. 



UNLIKE the majority 

 of books dealing 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 move- 

 ments, 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 exceptional op- 

 portunities 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, knowledge, and ingenuity of the photographers, but of their 

 high enthusiasm and unwearying patience. 



(Reduced specimen illustration.) 



