Reviews

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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Notes

01 April 1956 Comments Notes Purple Heron in Surrey.--On 18th September 1955 I disturbed a juvenile Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) in a patch of rather close-growing reeds at the south end of Frensham Little Pond, six miles N . W . of Haslemere, Surrey. First seen indistinctly in the ...
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Reviews

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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