OUR COMMON 

 SEA-BIRDS 



("(JKMOKANTS, PERNS, GULLS, SKUAS, PETRELS, and AUKS 



Bv PERCY R. LOWE, B.A., M.B., B.C. 



With ChapU-rs bv Beniley Beetham, Francis Heatiierley, F.R.C.S., 

 W, R. Ogilvie-Grant, Oliver G. Pike, W. P. Pycraft, A. J. Roberts, etc, 



Lai'i:i' qiiayto. cloth, gili. over 300 pages, and veaily 250 ilhislralioas 



ISs. net, inland postage yd. extra 



'NLIKE the majority of books dealing with 

 birds, this volume is of interest to the general 

 reader and to the student of ornithology alike. 



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^k.„V^ It is a book that enables the reader to identif\" 

 our sea-birds by name, to understand 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 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 

 beautv. They exhibit, in a markeci degree, the result not 

 only of the skill, knowledge, and ingenuity- i)f the photo- 

 graphers, but of their high enthusiasm and unwearying 

 patience. 



" ' Our Common Sea-Birds ' is not only written Mitli the clearness and 

 simplicity which are the first essentials of such a book, but it is also enriched 

 with a series of illustrations which no epithet but ' marveUons ' is adequate 

 to describe." — The Glasgow Hciald. 



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