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THE success which attended his last children's bird-book has induced Mr. Kearton to cater once more for the wants of young people interested in the animal life around them, and the result is the present charming little volume, illustrated, as usual, by reproductions from photographs taken direct from nature by the author and his brother. In the guise of a narrative told by “Cock Robin” to his offspring, the author has contrived to convey in his own inimitable manner a vast store of information concerning bird-life, interspersed with observations relating to other animals. Although, as already said, intended primarily for juvenile readers, the volume contains a certain amount of information which may be new to some ot their seniors, including those to whom natural history is not an unknown study. For instance, until we learnt it from Mr. Kearton's pictures, we ourselves were ignorant of the marked and easily recognised difference between the foot-prints of a rabbit and those of a hare, despite the number of times they have come under our notice in the snow.
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L., R. A Christmas Bird-Book 1 . Nature 71, 152 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/071152b0
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