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01 October 1991 Comments Reviews Les Oiseaux de Provence (An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Provence). By Patrick Bergier, Frank Dhermain, Georges Olioso & Philippe Orsini. (Conservatoire--Etudes des Ecosystemes Provence-Alpes du Sud, Aix en Provence, 1991. 38 pages. Paperbac...
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01 October 1989 Comments Reviews The Birds of Egypt. Edited by Steven M. Goodman and Peter L. Meininger. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989. 551 pages; 6 colour plates; 17 black-and-white plates; 126 maps. £70.00. Today's bird-book reviewer has one constant moan--that the pri...
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01 February 1989 Comments Reviews Birds of the Middle East and North Africa. By P. A. D. Hollom, R. F. Porter, S. Christensen and Ian Willis. T. & A. D. Poyser, Calton, 1988. 320 pages; 710 colour illustrations; 182 line-drawings; 499 distribution maps. £14.00.This publication rep...
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01 December 1988 Comments Reviews The Dragonflies of Europe. By R. R. Askew, (Harley Books, Great Horkesley, 1988. 291 pages. £49.95.) Every species meticulously illustrated in colour with the text covering description of the adult, biology (behaviour, jizz, habitat, etc.), flight per...
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01 December 1977 Comments Reviews Minsmere. Portrait of a Bird Reserve. By Herbert Axell. Hutchinson, London, 1977. 256 pages; 45 colour and 71 black-and-white photographs; many line-drawings and maps. £7.50 The Minsmere reserve of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds...
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