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ON the publication of his “British Warblers ” (1907-14) Mr. H. Eliot Howard took rank as a naturalist of marked ability, as an observer who could be trusted, and as an interpreter well trained in scientific method, fertile in suggestion, cautious in application, and, above all, insistent on the importance of keeping in close touch with the evidence afforded by patient and systematic field-work. A salient outcome of his monograph was a re-grouping of the phenomena presented by birds in their breeding haunts around a concept of “territory.” He has now marshalled the evidence in favour of this hypothesis in a work which neither the biologist nor the comparative psychologist can afford to neglect.
Territory in Bird Life.
By H. Eliot Howard. Pp. xiii + 308. (London: John Murray, 1920.) Price 21s. net.
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M., C. Territory in Bird Life . Nature 106, 590–592 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106590a0
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