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“STUDY any animal, even the most common, carefully, and you will find out something that has hitherto escaped notice.” Repeatedly did this sentence spring to mind as we read the pages of this charmingly written and beautifully illustrated book. The author, whether writing of the furred or the feathered creatures of our woodlands-of badgers, foxes, dormice, rabbits and squirrels, or of woodpecker, bullfinch, kestrel, sparrowhawk, owl, magpie and jay,-tells us something of habits or of adaptation of structure to habit that we have not met elsewhere; and not infrequently has shrewd criticism to offer on plausible theories of armchair origin. Her photographic illustrations bear comparison with the very best.
Woodland Creatures: Being some Wild Life Studies.
Frances
Pitt
By. Pp. 255. (London: G. Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1922.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Woodland Creatures: Being some Wild Life Studies . Nature 111, 112 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111112d0
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