BIBLIOGRAPHY 



1. Descriptions of Birds, &c. Descriptions of the rarer birds, ^ . 

 and nests not given in the present work will be found in the British 

 Bird Book, 4 vols., 1910-13 (ed. F. B. Kirkman), by F. C. R. Jour- 

 dain and W. P. Py craft, and, up to 1899 since when, however, 

 many species have been added to the British list in Howard 

 Saunders' Manual of British Birds (2nd ed.). For eggs, F. C. R. 

 Jourdain's Eggs of European Birds, or Dresser's Eggs of the Birds of 

 Europe, may also be consulted. 



2. Geographical Distribution and Migration. There is no recent 

 complete work on Distribution, but short notes up to date will be 

 found both in the British Bird Book, and in the Hand-list of British 

 Birds by Hartert, Jourdain, Ticehurst, and Witherby (1912). On 

 Migration which, though properly coming under the head of 

 Habits, may conveniently be associated with Distribution the most 

 recent information is to be found in Eagle Clarke's Studies in Bird 

 Migration, 2 vols., 1912, and the Annual Reports of the British 

 Ornithological Club. Short notes will be found in the two general 

 works above mentioned. A good short work on the general subject 

 is T. A. Coward's Migration of Birds, 1912 (Cambridge Manuals of 

 Science). 



3. Habits. The most recent and complete work on British Birds' 

 habits and instincts is the British Bird Book. Of the older works 

 Yarrell, History of Birds, 4th ed. (revised Newton and Saunders) ; 

 and Macgillivray, History of Birds, are the best. Seebohm's History 

 is of less value, and Morris's British Birds is not to be recommended. 

 Among the smaller works the best is W. H. Hudson's British Birds. 

 Of monographs, H. E. Howard's British Warblers stands as the 

 model of what may be achieved. On the general subject of Animal 

 Behaviour, with which the study of the behaviour of Birds must 

 be associated if it is to be of scientific value, the best works are 

 Lloyd Morgan's Animal Behaviour and Habit and Instinct; also 

 Washburn, The Animal Mind, at the end of which a full biblio- 

 graphy is given. From the great mass of general literature there is 

 space to select for mention only the works of W. H. Hudson and 

 E. Selous, and " lest we forget " the Natural History of Selborne. 



4. Structure and Classification. For general use W. P. Pycraft's 

 History of Birds and F. E. Beddard's introduction to W. H. Hudson's 

 British Birds will be found adequate. There are also excellent 

 articles in Newton's Dictionary of Birds. More advanced is Beddard's 

 Structure and Classification (1898). 



A comprehensive work on the general problems underlying the 

 study of Birds is W. P. Pycraft's History of Birds (1910). 



5. Periodicals. The best for general use are the Zoologist, British 

 Birds (ed. Witherby), and Wild Life (ed. D. English), the latter 

 containing the best extant photographic work. 



