Short reviews

01 May 1989 Comments Reviews The Book of Naturalists. Edited by William Beebe. (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1988. £7.00) Reprinted anthology of natural history writings (first published in 1940), ranging from Aristotle to the mid twentieth century, strung together with...
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Notes

01 April 1988 Comments Notes Pied-billed Grebe catching fish attracted by man. I was very interested in Dan Crawley's recent note (Brit. Birds 80: 72-73) describing how a Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus caught fish attracted by bread thrown to waterbirds. I had rather a sim...
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