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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 



Home=life of Marsh Birds, by E. L. Turner and P, H. Bahr 



Witherby & Co., 1907. 62 pp., price 2/6 net. 



This is a special photograpiiic number of British Birds, and contains 

 papers by the two authors named above, the first being responsible for 

 " Great Crested Grebes and Coots," " The Water-Rail," " Bearded Tits," 

 and " Three Marsh-Land Warblers." ]\Ir. Bahr writes on " The Snipe," 

 " The Red-Throated Diver," and " A Nesting Colony of Black-Headed 

 Gulls." Several of Miss Turner's photographs, identical with those now 

 reproduced, but on a smaller scale, appeared in our journal for October 

 last, so that our readers will be able to judge of their worth. Others, 



Red-throated Diver, showing 'outward and visible signs of uneasiness.' 



hovvever, now are published for the first time, and in addition to their 

 scientific value, are excellently reproduced and make good ' pictures.' 

 Mr. Bahr's notes are illustrated by a few sketches in the text, three of which 

 the publishers enable us to reproduce. They shew the curious attitudes 

 assumed by red-throated divers in the presence of the camera. 



T'Heft an' Blades o' Shevvield, by Thomas Winder. Sheffield 

 Independent Press, Ltd., 1907. 128 pp. 



In this volume the author has presented several admirable stories in 

 dialect, many of which have the additional value of being of distinct 

 antiquarian interest. They refer to the " good old days," when " ratten- 

 ing," etc., were in vogue. Some of the stories we are very much tempted 

 to reproduce, did space permit. At the end of the volume are some 

 " Antiquarian Papers," taken from " Harrison's Survey of Sheffield in 

 1637," and other sources. The book is illustrated with views of old Shef- 

 field, etc. 



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