The " Country Life " Library 

 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. P. Pycraft, A. J. Roberts, etc. 



Large quarto, cloth, gilt, with over 300 pages and nearly 

 250 illustrations. 185. gd. net. Post free {inland), jgs, 6d. 



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 movements, their habits, 

 their nests and their eggs. 



The Observer says: — "We marvel at the snapshots that have been 

 taken of birds. Every movement of their flight is now recorded ; the 

 taking off, the ahghting, the swooping, the settling, the ' planing,' the 

 struggling against the wind. And they are just the birds which the 

 ordinary man wants to know about, because he has such opportunities of 

 seeing them for himself on any walk along the cliff." 



THE PEREGRINE FALCON 

 AT THE EYRIE 



By FRANCIS HEATHERLEY, F.R.C.S. 



Illustrated with wonderful photographs by the Author and C. J. King. 

 Demy quarto, cloth, gilt, 6s. 3d. net ; by inland post, 6s. gd. 



This fascinating book on the Peregrine Falcon — the grandest 

 bird of prey left in England — combines the salient facts of 

 almost innumerable field notes written at the eyrie itself. It 

 is a book that should appeal with irresistible force to all true 

 nature lovers. Many striking and unexpected facts were 

 revealed to the author as a result of unwearying patience 

 in a diminutive hut slung from the precipice of a lonely islet. 

 These records are now set forth in a wonderful narrative which 

 discloses the life history of the Peregrine Falcon from the 

 moment of its hatching to the day it finally leaves the eyrie. 



The Times says : — ■" We commend this faithful and truly scientific 

 inquiry to all lovers of animals and to those who are in quest of a real 

 ioiowledge of nature." 



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