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scientific value this would have been a drawback. We may 

 also complain of the ed^es of the volumes being cut, and so 

 closely, that rebinding (the present covers are poor) will be a 

 difficulty. 



A Special Photographic Number of British Birds will be 

 issued shortly. It will be an entirely separate publication, and 

 will take the form of a book of some 60 to 70 pages of letter- 

 press, with 32 full- page plates. The subject will be the Home 

 Life of some Marsh-Breeding Birds, photographed and 

 described by Miss E. L. Turner and Mr. P. H. Bahr. The 

 selected illustrations are not only excellent as photographs but 

 they have also been chosen with a view to their illusti'ating the 

 various jjoints brought out in the narrative with regard to the 

 nesting habits and young of the birds dealt with. It is hoped 

 that the book (which will be obtainable at the office of British 

 Birds, or at any bookseller, for 2s. 6d.), will be strongly 

 supported by the readers of British Birds, and will be made 

 widely known to their friends. 



BOOKS OF THE MONTH. 



Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. Order Passeres. Complete in 

 two vols. By A. G. Butler, m.h.o.u., F.r..s.. f.z.s., etc. Illustrated 

 by H. Gronvold and F. W. Frohawk. Vol. I. 210 pp. (Caxton 

 Pub. Co.) £4 4s. net. 



A Bird Collector s Medley., by E. C. Arnold. 144 pp. Illustrated. 

 (West, Newman.) lUs. 



Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary, by A. H. Patterson, with a prefatory 

 note by Her Grace the Duchess of Bedford. 352 pp. Blustrated. 

 (Methuen.) 10s. 6d. net. 



Notes on the Birds of Kent, by R. J. Balston, f.z.s., m.b.o.u., 

 Rev. C. W. Shepherd, m.a., f.z s., m.b.o.u., and E. Bartlett, f.z.s. 

 Illustrated. (Porter.) 



