Bird Behaviour
By FRANK FINN, F.Z.S.
Author of “Birds of the Countryside,” etc.
With 44 illustrations, on art paper.
Mr. Frank Finn is well known as one of our chief authorities on all that concerns bird-life. Those who are familiar with his books are aware that he has made it a practice only to write from personal observation. “Bird Behaviour,” the subject of his new book, has never before received serious attention, but it is one in which Mr. Finn is thoroughly at home. Some of the points treated in the volume relate to the locomotion of birds, their nutrition and the reasons for their choice of particular foods—the care of the young, nests, migration, senses of smell and sight.
Insect Artisans and their Work
By EDWARD STEP, F.L.S.
Author of “Messmates,” “Toadstools and Mushrooms of the Countryside,” etc.
With 54 illustrations, on art paper.
From quite early days in the study of Entomology it has been generally known that certain Insects in the perfection of their industry might almost be accepted as the prototypes of the human artificer. Thus, the wasp was taken as the first paper-maker, a certain wild bee as a mason, and another bee as a carpenter.