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THIS is a series of studies of the private lives of certain birds and beasts, most of them common dwellers in the English fields and hedgerows—voles, weasels, hedgehogs, peewits, owls, hawks and such. There are also two chapters on puffins and seals. Miss Frances Pitt writes on all these animals with an intimacy and humour which ensure ease and enjoyment for the reader, and the perusal of the book should certainly add interest and pleasure to a Nature lover's rambles. The author directs attention to the useful work done by animals commonly known as pests in a manner refreshingly free from sentimental special pleading. The pen drawings by G. E. Collins are delightful.
Wild Life Studies
Frances
Pitt
By. (Argosy Books, No. 3.) Pp. iv + 189 + 9 plates. (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1935.) 3s. 6d. net.
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Wild Life Studies. Nature 136, 1010 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/1361010d0
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