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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY, 

 Parts I. to VI., 1916-17. By W. H. Mullens and 

 H. Kirke Swann. 



This ambitious work, the first part of which was published 

 on 20th June'1916, has now been completed, and, as we said 

 in a previous notice, 1 is one which will be indispensable to 

 all public libraries and to every student of local ornithology 

 or bibliography. 



The authors acknowledge that in a work of this 

 character there must be some slips and omissions ; but he 

 must be indeed a hypercritical reviewer who has anything 

 but praise for the result of the labours of Messrs Mullens 

 and Kirke Swann. As an indication of the task which 

 the authors have so conscientiously fulfilled, it may be 

 mentioned that upwards of 770 authors and close on 

 4000 publications are dealt with in the book, which runs 

 to over 700 pages. A notable feature is that pp. 675-691 

 of Addenda and Corrigenda are printed on one side of 

 the paper only, so as to allow of their being cut up, in 

 order that the various alterations may be inserted in the 

 appropriate places in the book. 



Although the work may appear to some to be written 

 somewhat unevenly many details being given about certain 

 books of small account, and little about others of which 

 more information would have been welcome it will always 

 rank as the standard work on a hitherto obscure subject. 

 We have said that the work has been completed, but we 

 eagerly look forward to the supplementary Geographical 

 Bibliography, which we presume will shortly be published, 

 as promised when issuing Part II. of the present work. 

 This "County Index" which is to include not only the 

 short titles of the books relating to local avifaunas but also 

 all articles and notes in periodicals, by every writer, provided 

 they are of a faunistic nature will be an essential addendum 

 to a work which may be summarised as original and 

 comprehensive. H. S. G. 



1 The Scottish Naturalist, 1916, pp. 247-248. 





