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'THE NATURALIST' {^Z^;} for 1908. 



Edited by T. SHEPPARD, F.G.S., and T. W. WOODHEAD, PI1.D., F.L.S 



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Contains 484 pages of excellent reading matter ; 4j full-page y high- 

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The volume includes many valuable and attractive articles by 

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THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



A Historical Account of the Avifauna of the County. 

 By THOS. H. NELSON, M.B.O.U., Redcar, 



With the co-operation of W. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., and F. Boyes. 



2 Vols. Demy 8vo., 25/- net, the set. ; Demy 4to., 42/- net., the set. 



Nearly two hundred photo-illustrations are included of noted bird-sites or 

 haunts and interesting phases of bird-life within the county. This work is based 

 upon an unrivalled and exceptionally complete mass of material. The scope ot 

 the work is comprehensive, and the account of each species includes succinct 

 accounts of distribution, faunistic status, migration, nidification, variation, 

 vernacular nomenclature, and folk-lore, with full details w^hen necessary, and 

 critical and detailed particulars of the occurrence of the rare species ; while under 

 each species is incorporated a verbatim reproduction of the account given of it b}' 

 Thomas Allis in 1844, whose list (the earliest Yorkshire one) of that year has never 

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