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A DAINTY book is Miss Hayward's, the pretty little process-blocks, representing a number of our common birds, matching the short sketches of avian habits. The lamented author had a “deep-rooted love of the beauty of the world.” She was a close and unwearied watcher of bird traits, and her notes possess the charm of all original observations. From a scientific point of view, the chief failing of many of the notes is that they endow the birds too largely with human consciousness. Mrs. Hubbard recognises the objection, and says something in favour of this “anthropomorphism”; but while such fancies are poetically attractive, and may be psychologically justifiable, they must always be of less value than the facts which give them birth.
Bird Notes.
By the late Jane Mary Hayward. Edited by Emma Hubbard. Pp. 181. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1895.)
Catalogue of the Birds of Prey (Accipitres and Striges).
By J. H. Gurney Pp. 56. (London: R. H. Porter, 1894.)
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Bird Notes Catalogue of the Birds of Prey (Accipitres and Striges). Nature 51, 532 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051532a0
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