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01 December 1983 Comments Reviews Eric Hosking's Waders. By Eric Hosking with W. G. Hale. Pelham Books, London, 1983. 185 pages; over 125 colour plates; 80 black-andwhite plates, £14.95. Although this is unashamedly a vehicle for Eric Hosking's superb photographs (both colour ...
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01 December 1975 Comments Reviews Threatened Birds of Europe. Edited by Robert Hudson with introduction by Stanley Cramp. Macmillan, London, 1975. 128 pages; 56 coloured and 3 black-and-white plates; 9 line drawings; 59 maps. £4.95. Profound is my hope that no reviewer will ha...
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01 May 1975 Comments Reviews Birds of Prey in Europe. By Maarten Bijleveld. Macmillan, London, 1974. 263 pages; two black-and-white plates; five figures. £12.50. The bare bones of this grim tale can be exposed in a few words. In the estimation of Professor Dr. K. H. Voous...
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01 October 1953 Comments Reviews Birds of the Gauntlet. By H. von Michaelis. (Hutchinson, London, 1952). 84s. The author is a deservedly successful artist and writer, portraying in this book birds which he has known at close quarters. All, except a European Kestrel, are South African spe...
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01 March 1952 Comments Reviews British Bird Boohs : An Index to British Ornithologv, A.D. 1481 to J.I). 1948. By Raymond Irwin (London, Grafton & Co., 1951. 63/-). The title of this book gives a very inadequate idea of its contents since it indexes and classifies, not only books, b u t...
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01 February 1945 Comments Reviews The Breeding Distribution, History and Population of the North Atlantic Gannet (Sola bassana). By James Fisher and H. G. Vevcrs. Part I.--A History of the G a n n e t s Colonies, and t h e Census in 1939. Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. xii, pp. 173-213, ...
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01 June 1944 Comments Reviews Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire ' and Buckinghamshire, 1942. Edited by B . W. Tucker (University Museum, Oxford). T H I S report, which shows how well t h e society maintains its activity, contains as us...
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