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Edward A. Armstrong

This page lists books written by, or including a substantial contribution by, Edward A. Armstrong.

The books are ordered by publication date with the most recent at the top.

 

The Wren

Edward A. Armstrong

Shire Natural History 59

1992

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Discovering Bird Courtship

E. A. Armstrong

Shire Publications

1978

A 64 page study.

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Discovering Bird Song

E. A. Armstrong

Shire Publications

1975

A 92 page study which includes songograms.

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The Life & Lore Of The Bird: In Nature, Art, Myth, And Literature

Edward A. Armstrong

Crown

1975

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A Study Of Bird Song

E. A. Armstrong

Dover Publications

1973

This is an enlarged and revised edition of the book that was originally published in 1963.

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Saint Francis: Nature Mystic: The Derivation and Significance of the Nature Stories in the Franciscan Legend

E. A. Armstrong

University of California Press

1973

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The Folklore of Birds

Edward A. Armstrong

Dover Publications

1970

A revised and enlarged edition of the book originally published in 1958.

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Bird Vocalizations: Their Relations to Current Problems in Biology and Psychology

Editor: R.A. Hinde

Cambridge University Press

1969

This book includes the paper Aspects Of The Evolution Of Man's Appreciation Of Bird Song by Edward A. Armstrong.

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Birds Display And Behaviour

E.A. Armstrong

Dover Publications

1965

This is a revised edition of the work which was published in 1940 and 1947.

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A Study Of Bird Song

E. A. Armstrong

Oxford University Press

1963

The first extensive review of bird vocalizations. Chapter headings include: Bird Utterance as Language; The Structure and Components of Bird Song; The Development and Learning of Song; Sub-Song; Vocal Mimicry; Song Dialects and the Relationship of Vocalisation to Speciation; Territorial Song and Related Forms of Song; Song-flight and Non-Vocal Song; Song and the Annual Cycle; Female Song; Duetting and Corporate Song; The Influence of Light, Weather and Temperature on Song; Song and Adaptations to Habitat; and Bird Song as Art and Play.

An enlarged edition of this book was published in 1973.

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The Folklore of Birds

Edward A. Armstrong

Collins

The New Naturalist 39

1958

"Mr Amstrong has selected a number of familiar birds - such as the swan, the raven, the owl, the robin and the wren - and has traced magico-religious beliefs concerning them as far back as possible to the cultures in which these beliefs arose. With the scientist's eye and methods of analysis he has examined the development of myth and ritual with originality and ingenuity. Many odd and interesting facts are cited, and explanations are given, for example of the customs of breaking the wish-bone, and of fables concerning weather-prophet birds and the generation of the Barnacle Goose from shell-fish. This book is the first treatment of a group of folklore beliefs as a series of artefacts are treated by an archaeologist, classifying them in order according to epochs. Archaeological data, as well as oral and literary traditions, have been used to illustrate the origins and significance of the current folklore."

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The Wren

Edward A Armstrong

Collins

The New Naturalist Monograph 3

1955

312 page study of the Wren.

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Physiological Mechanisms In Animal Behaviour

Cambridge University Press

1950

This collection of papers, originally presented at a Society for Experimental Biology conference in Cambridge in 1949, includes The Nature And Function Of Displacement Activities by Edward A. Armstrong.

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Bird Life

E.A. Armstrong

Illustrations: Eric Ennion

Lindsay Drummond

1949

150 pages with mainly line drawings. Discusses various aspects of bird behaviour.

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Birds Display And Behaviour

E.A. Armstrong

Lindsay Drummond

1947

This is a revised edition of Bird Display which was published in 1940.

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Shakespeare's Imagination: A Study of the Psychology of Association and Inspiration

Edward A. Armstrong

Lindsay Drummond

1946

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The Way Birds Live

E.A. Armstrong

Lindsay Drummond

1943

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Birds Display: An Introduction to the Study of Bird Psychology

E.A. Armstrong

Cambridge University Press

1940

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Birds of the Grey Wind

E.A. Armstrong

Oxford University Press

1940

Second and third editions published by Lindsay Drummond in 1944 and 1946.

A study of the bird life in Northern Ireland.

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