STORY OF A PIRATE BIRD
“Outlaw of the Air,” by Leslie Brown (London: Bles).
Mr. Leslie Brown, an experienced bird watcher, in this book traces the career of a great skua, the pirate of the gull tribe and the terror of all small birds. Tlie setting from the story is the Shetland Islands, whose wildness matches the exciting drama Mr. Brown unfolds. He tells the life history of the skua from his experiences as a chick, his education by the parent birds, his first flights, his mating, his exploits in the full power of his maturity, his savage fights with other birds to the final epic struggle when he met his match in a Greenland falcon and was killed as he himself had killed so many others before. Mr. Brown writes with strict fidelity to the details of bird life as he has observed them and provides a story as fascinating as any tale of adventure witli human characters in the principal roles.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 264, 5 August 1939, Page 5 (Supplement)
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163STORY OF A PIRATE BIRD Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 264, 5 August 1939, Page 5 (Supplement)
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