Reviews

01 December 1984 Comments Reviews The Atlas of Australian Birds. By M. Blakers, S. J. J. F. Davies and P. N. Reilly. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1984. 738 pages; 648 line-drawings; over 650 maps. £45.00.  I have nothing but praise for this magnificent book produce...
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Short Reviews

01 December 1984 Comments Reviews Handbook of Birds of India and Pakistan. Volume 4: frogmouths to pittas. By Salim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley. (OUP, 1984. £19.50) The first edition was published in 1970: this second edition is revised up to 31st March 1982, and has three new plates....
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Letters

01 December 1984 Comments Letters Tufted Duck carrying young. In connection with the recent notes by Montse Carbonell and Stephen B. Edwards (Brit. Birds 77: 318-319), I should like to draw attention to a previous published account by my husband, the late Dr Jeffery Harrison, of a fema...
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Notes

01 December 1984 Comments Notes Grey Heron parents attending grounded nestlings. In my monograph on the Grey Heron Ardea cinerea (1954, The Heron), I stated of young blown from the treetops that 'If in crashing the bird breaks a leg or wing it will not survive long, but if uninjured ...
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