BIRDS OF BRITAIN 



BY 



J. LEWIS BONHOTE 



CONTAINING ONE HUNDRED FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS 



IN COLOUR, SELECTED BY H. E. DRESSER FROM HIS 



"BIRDS IN EUROPE" 



Square Demy 8vo, Cloth, Gilt Top 



Price 20s. net 



(Post Free, Price 20s. 6d. ) 



SOME PRESS OPINIONS 



' ' It can in general be thoroughly relied on for reference, especially on the questions 

 of measurement and distribution, and we do not know of any book covering the whole 

 ground which could be more safely recommended' to the young Naturalist, keen to 

 learn the secret of identification. " — The Times. 



• • His work is greatly in advance of many that profess to treat of our country's birds 

 and omit precisely those about which we need information the most ; while the general 

 public will not fail to appreciate a book specially addressed to it." — The Guardian. 



' ' A book on birds is always sure of a welcome, and when the book is so compre- 

 hensive and so attractive it needs only to be commended. The text is lucid and to the 

 point. For purposes of identification this is one of the best books of the kind that we 

 have seen." — The Tribune. 



' ' The latest book about birds will appeal to all who are interested in this fascinating 

 study, and who need a work which will supply them with particulars of species which 

 occur in Great Britain, and enable them to identify them. Mr. Bonhote is an ornitho- 

 logist of repute, and his notes have been taken ' at first hand, straight from Nature. ' 

 The illustrations in Mr. Bonhote's work are a feature of note. The selection has been 

 well made, although, perhaps, such familiar friends as the robin and the blackbird might 

 well have been omitted in favour of some others less well known. ' ' — Westminster Gazette. 



" The selection has been made with the finest discrimination, and the result is a very 

 handsome bird-book. Mr. Bonhote has done his share of the work in the most credit- 

 able manner. The notices of the birds are necessarily brief, but a great many of them 

 bear the impress of personal observation." — Country Life. 



" It is a splendid collection of 100 pictures in colour, accompanied by really valu- 

 able notes. Mr. Bonhote not only faithfully describes a bird, but tells us where by field 

 or wood or hillside we are likely to meet with it, and by what conspicuous mark or action 

 we can most easily recognise it." — Christian World. 



" The book is well printed and bound, the pages have wide margins, and so far as 

 English information is concerned, it leaves little to be desired. Its value lies in its 

 original descriptions of bird life and habits, and for these we cordially welcome it." — Irish 



Naturalist. 



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