Reviews

01 March 1961
Comments Reviews Atlas of European Birds. By K. H . Voous. N e l s o n , London, i960. 284 pages; 419 maps and 355 photographs. 70s. One of the post-war developments in ornithology has been the attention given to bird distribution. There has been a growing realisation of ...
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01 August 1958
Comments Reviews By D. A. BANNERMAN. Illustrated by G. E. Lodge. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh), Vol. VI (I957)= 3 2 ° pages; 26 colour plates. Vol. VII (1958): 256 pages; 27 colour plates. ^ 3 3s. each. THE SIXTH VOLUME describes the storks, herons, Flamingo, swans, ge...
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01 April 1956
Comments Reviews with field assistance by GEORGE EDWARDS. (Faber and Faber, London, 1955). 128 p a g e s ; 32 plates. 18s. Birds Fighting is one of the first bird books to be illustrated mainly with electronic flash photographs. A number of them have already appeared in t...
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01 January 1956
Comments Reviews By D . A. BANNERMAN and G. E. LODGE. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1955). V O L . I V . 259 p a g e s ; 29 plates. 45s. T H E present volume is a worthy successor to the preceding ones, but again whets the appetite for those which are to come. It covers t...
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01 December 1954
Comments Reviews The Birds of the British Isles. By D. A. Bannerman and G. E. Lodge. (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1954). Vol. 3. 45s. THIS third volume completes the Passerines, covering the warblers, thrushes, chats, nightingales, Robin etc., wrens and swallows in the same...
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01 October 1954
Comments Reviews Cheltenham and District Naturalists' Society. Report for 1951-1952. Obtainable from L. W. Hayward, 40 High Street, Prestbury, Cheltenham. 2s. 6d. WHILE we welcome this first printed bird report from Cheltenham for 1951 and 1952 we must look forward to far...
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01 August 1954
Comments Reviews Birds (in Hampshire, 1952). By Edwin Cohen. From Proc. Hampshire Field Club and Arch. Soc, vol. xviii, pt. 2 (1953). HAMPSHIRE is beyond question the weakest point in south coast ornithology, and, although Mr. Edwin Cohen in these two brief annotated list...
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01 August 1954
Comments Reviews The Heron. By Frank A. Lowe. (Collins, London, 1954). 18s. FROM the time of the Early Egyptians, as the author tells us, the Heron has been referred to in literature and represented in art. As a figure in mythology, an item of food usually in the luxury c...
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