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01 April 1973 Comments Reviews Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. By Salim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley. Oxford University Press, Bombay. Vol 5 (1972): 276 pages; 10 colour plates; many line drawings and maps. Vol 6 (1971): 245 pages; 8 colour plates; many line drawings a...

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01 September 1972 Comments Reviews Gulls i n Britain. By Richard Vaughan. Witherby, London, 1972. 96 p a g e s ; 54 black-and-white plates. £1.75. This is a pleasant book. Gulls are highly photogenic, but few of us who walk through a gullery firing off a camera in all directions prod...

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01 June 1971 Comments Reviews Les Oiseaux du Proche et du Moyen Orient. By F. Hue and R.-D. Etchecopar. N. Boubee et Cie, Paris, 1970. 952 pages; 32 colour and 2 black-and-white plates and 356 line-drawings by Paul Barruel; 429 distribution maps; 2 end-maps. Fr 220.00. The two disting...

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01 March 1971 Comments Reviews Wild Wings to the Northlands. By S. Bayliss Smith. Witherby, London, 1970. 208 pages; 24 black-and-white photographs. £1.50. Anyone might be forgiven for thinking, on brief acquaintance, that this is just another birdwatcher's travelogue full of sen...

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01 January 1971 Comments Reviews Die Schneehiihner. By E. O. Hohn. 84 pages. DM 7.50. Der Eichelhaher. By Andras Keve. 128 pages. DM 10.00. Raben- und Nebelkrahe. By Manfred Melde. n o pages. DM 8.20. Strandlaufer Eurasiens. By S. M. Uspenski. 78 pages. DM 6.40. Numbers 408, 410, 414 and...

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01 July 1968 Comments Reviews Pigeons and Doves of the World. By Derek Goodwin. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 1967. 446 pages; three colour plates; many maps and line-drawings. £6 6s. In his opening paragraph, Derek Goodwin writes of feral pigeons bri...

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01 February 1967 Comments Reviews In Search of Birds. By Collingwood Ingram. Witherby, London, 1966. 286 pages. 30s. This is a colourful patchwork quilt of sixty years' and a very good thirty shillings' worth of ornithological observations, experiences and ruminations, which no one with e...

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01 November 1966 Comments Reviews Population Studies of Birds. By David Lack. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1966. 341 pages; 1 photographic plate; many textfigures. 63s. Dr. Lack's first book on animal populations, The Natural Regulation of Animal Numbers (1954), embraced all animals, but most...