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“... time, it will almost certainly join the entries in a much larger edition of Extinct Birds. Errol Fuller’s book recounts the story of the eighty or so bird species known to have been extinguished during recorded history, in every case by human beings or their proxies – rats, cats, dogs, pigs and other introduced animals, plants and microbes. At ...”

“... of grief’ for his lost egg collection while writing the book. He visits the British collector Errol Fuller, whose house resembles a Victorian cabinet of curiosities, complete with hardwood cupboards that once housed some of Wolley’s eggs. Fuller himself owns two great auk eggs; he once had a share in a stuffed ...”

“... until Profumo himself admitted lying to the House and resigned from the cabinet. Even when the fuller story came out with all its gothic ramifications, it was quite hard to make out exactly what was going on. Yes, men in masks, and dogs, and swimming-pool cavortings at Cliveden, but which men, and what exactly was everyone doing in the pool? You couldn’t ...”