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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 1988 Comments Reviews A Field Guide to the Waders of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East. By Peter Colston & Philip Burton. Hodder & Stoughton, Sydney, London, Auckland and Toronto, 1988. 23 colour plates; 95 line-drawings; 53 maps. £9.95.If yo...
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01 May 1955 Comments Reviews The Migrations of Birds. By Jean Dorst. Translated from the French by Constance D . Sherman. Heinemann, London, 1962. x i v + 4 7 6 pages; 131 figures in the text. 50s. The amateur migration enthusiast often longs for a comprehensive, readable book in Eng...
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01 May 1955 Comments Reviews (Collins, London, 1955). xvi and 172 pages. 48 plates (40 in colour). 21s. T H I S companion volume to the same author's Pocket Guide to British Birds is arranged on a similar system, based on division of all species first according to an arbitrary group...
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