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, F.R.C.S., 

 W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT, OLIVER G. PIKE, W. P. PYCRAFT, A. J. ROBERTS, etc. 



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



15s net, inland postage yd 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 under- 

 stand their movements, 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 opportunities of studying 

 the habits and life histories of our sea-birds, and this 

 book, in addition to embodying much valuable infor- 

 mation 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. 



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