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The work is the most complete and satisfactory 

 treatise which has ever been published in English, 

 dealing with any group of birds from the avicultural 

 standpoint. It is an absolute necessity for every lover 

 of Parrakeets. We hope that the author will see his 

 way to deal with other groups in a similar style. 



''Bird Life in Wild Walesr by J. A. Walpole- 

 Bond. Ilhcstrated with photographs by Olivet- G. Pike. 

 T. Fisher Unwin. Seven shillings and six pence. 



Popular interest in natural history steadily 

 increases — and the frequent appearance of works like 

 the above is evidently a response to a growing 

 demand. 



This is a chatty, discursive book, from which a 

 good deal of ornithological knowledge can be gleaned 

 concerning our native species. It is a very good 

 example of its class, and the illustrations, which are 

 mostly photographs of nests, are of a high degree of 

 merit. 



The following extract will give an idea of the 

 style of the book : — 



"Another very characteristic bird of these fast flowing 

 rivers and streams is the charming Grey Wagtail, and few 

 prettier sights are presented to the natiiralist than a famih' 

 party of these birds. Long after the young leave their homes 

 the old birds are very solicitous for their welfare, flying back- 

 wards and forwards past the intruder with shrill notes of 

 alarm. This Wagtail is generally, we think, double brooded, 

 the first clutch of eggs usually being laid early in May, the 

 second some five or six weeks later. Often enough we have 

 seen the nest at no great distance from that of the Dipper. 

 The nest is in this locality generally built on a ledge of rock 

 bordering a streatn, or in a crevice or hole in the stonework of 

 a bridge ; indeed, you will seldom find it far from water, 

 though we know of one case where it was built in ivy covering 

 the wall of a stable yard with no stream at all near. 



" The eggs, numbering four to six, var}- a good deal both in 



