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It is said that no Nature book can be successful nowadays unless its illustrations are good. “Birds of the Grey Wind” has a number of really excellent photographs. That of the fulmar in flight is outstanding, but almost as good are those depicting peregrine and sparrow hawk, sandpiper and water ousel. Of special interest is the photograph of a chough feeding her young. This is the first close–up photograph I remember having seen of a chough—a rare bird, nesting hi the twilight of caves—and it is perhaps because of under–exposure of the negative that it has been necessary to touch up the bills of the young choughs. There is an unusual illustration showing a mute swan chasing away a Bewick's swan on Lough Neagh.
Birds of the Grey Wind
By Edward A. Armstrong. Pp. xv + 228 + 32 plates. (London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1940.) 12s. 6d. net.
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GORDON, S. Birds of the Grey Wind. Nature 148, 546 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148546a0
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