48 Review: Kearton’s British Birds’ Nests. 
it is the product of two minds. The illustrations drawn from the 
county of York are disproportionately small; yet, probably, no — 
other part of Britain can offer more varied aspects of bird life, 
and it is a pleasure to think that not only are books being pub- 
lished dealing with this subject in the county, but that we have © 
also a great many workers with the camera. 
Some time before Mr. Kearton published his book, the writer 
was photographing the eggs and nests of birds, and was also 
making a personal study of the nesting habits of Yorkshire birds. 
Amongst the best photographs he has seen is a series by the 
ev. W. Travis Travis, of Ripley, of equal merit to those in — 
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Mr. Kearton’s book ; a pretty study of a Willow Wren amidst — 
grass and daisies, a Garden Warbler in a surrounding of nettles 
and cleavers, a Kittiwake nesting on the Pinnacle Rocks at the © 
Farnes, as seen through a tele-photo lens, and many others. 
But Mr. Travis is more ambitious than this, for he is photograph- 
ing all the European Birds’ Eggs and colouring them in such a 
manner that, should they ever be reproduced, ornithologists will 
possess a unique wor . Bendelack Hewetson, of Leeds, 
has done some really eed photographs of birds’ nests on 
the Farnes, and of Terns at the Spurn, of unique interest. 
Two young naturalist friends of the writer’s, Peel and Arthur | ‘ 
Longbottom, sons of Mr. D. Longbottom, of Silsden, are doing 
some good moorland work. Before him is a batch of their 
photographs, a charming study of a Ring Ouzel in a whin 
bush, and another of a Willow Wren amidst the grass 
behind a bush of eglantine. The President of the Wakefield 
Naturalists’ Society (Mr. George Parkin), has also sent some _ 
interesting photographs; one, a Moorhen’s nest among reeds, 
conveys to the eye the nature of its nesting habits better than 
pages of letterpress. Mr. James Backhouse, of Harrogate, has 
shown the writer, amongst others, a particularly fine photograph 
of a Corncrake’s nest in cut grass, and that of a Chaffinch in 
an ivy bush. He has also seen work done by Mr. A. Houghton, 
of Huddersfield, and Mr. F. W W. Branson, of Leeds. In all these 
one species. All excite a love of country, sea, mountain, fell, 
apd and birds. 
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every lover of wild nature, even if birds’ nests be not his _ 
cut — this book can be heartily recommended. 
HENRY CROWTHER, F.R.M. 5 
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