Item #1705 Bird Behaviour; A contribution based chiefly on a study of the Black-Headed Gull. F. B. Kirkman.

Bird Behaviour; A contribution based chiefly on a study of the Black-Headed Gull

London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1937.

A contribution based chiefly on a study of the Black-Headed Gull.

"The Black-headed Gull owes its name to its hood. As the hood is brown, although it may seem black from a distance, the name is not happily chosen. It stresses, moreover, a feature that serves as identification mark in the breeding season only. Outside the breeding season the bird's head is white, with a few dark flacks. A better means of recogition, present at all seasons, is the red legs and beak... The assumption kept in view throughout the book is that the gull, and birds in general, have a mind as well as a body."

Item #1705

Quarto, bound in dark blue cloth boards with gilt title, 232 pages, photographic illustrations, stamped 'Wellington College Natural History Society', a very good copy.

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