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or Sea Swallows which annually visit the British Islands for their

nesting season. Mr. Bickerton has studied these five species on their

nesting grounds, and in addition to making very valuable notes on

their habits, all of which are fully recorded in his book, he has

secured a truly wonderful and very beautiful series of photographs,

no less than thirty-seven of which have been reproduced, mounted as

thirty-two plates in this book.


The rage for collecting eggs of the rarer British birds has

been particularly destructive to the Terns in the past, and were it

not that some of the species are now strictly protected by the

owners of the land upon which they nest, they might ere now have

vanished as breeding species. The Sandwich Tern is now steadily

increasing in numbers as a breeding bird on the Ravenglass Gulley,

thanks to the strict protection afforded it by the owner, Lord

Muncaster, a fact which is demonstrated by the numbers of eggs

observed annually by the keepers.


The author’s account of his search for the rare Roseate

Tern is very interesting, but for obvious reasons he refuses to divulge

the secret of the locality in which he discovered this prize. The

very excellent photographs of this beautiful species prove how

successful he was.



THE BRITISH WARBLERS. 5 "


This beautiful work has now reached its seventh part, in

which the author, Mr. Eliot Howard, deals with the life history of

the Marsh Warbler, the Great Reed Warbler and the Aquatic

Warbler, the greater portion of the present part being devoted to the

first of these species.


In reviewing the previous parts of this book we have spoken

in very high praise of Mr. Howard’s work and of its superb plates

by Mr. Gronvold, and we can add little to what has already been

said, except that the present part is fully up to the high standard of


*The British Warblers, A History with Problems of their Lives, by G. H.


ELIOT Howard, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. Illustrated by Henrik Gronvold.


London: R. H. PORTER, 7, Princes Street, Cavendish Square, W.


Part 7 ; price 21/- net.



