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MR. ELIOT HOWARD has devoted more time to the study of bird behaviour than any other ornithologist of his time. But this ‘behaviour’ has always been in relation to that manifested during the sexual cycle, from the onset of the emotions relating thereto, up to the care of the young; and always his interpretation of that behaviour is in terms of psychology, with which the average ornithologist does not greatly, if at all, concern himself. But that is all the more reason why he should explore this new field of observation. The psychologists will certainly find in these pages a very helpful source of inspiration.
The Nature of a Bird's World
By Eliot Howard. Pp. vii + 102. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1935.) 7s. 6d. net.
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P., W. Bird Behaviour. Nature 137, 381 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137381a0
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