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Reviews



REVIEWS


SOME BIRDS OF THE LONDON ZOO


This charming little book will be read with great interest by members

of the Avicultural Society because it deals with many of the birds with

which they are familiar. Mr. Martin Duncan is both a naturalist and an

artist and so has been able not only to produce a book containing a large

amount of information but has illustrated it with a series of very

charming coloured pictures, though some of these are perhaps rather

more artistic than strictly accurate as to detail. Twenty-two groups of

birds, from the Birds of Paradise to the Cassowaries, are dealt with.


[Some Birds of the London Zoo , by F. Martin Duncan, F.Z.S.

John Bale, Sons, and Danielsson, Ltd., Great Titchfield Street, W. 1.

Price 6s. net.]



THE BIRDS OF MIDLOTHIAN


This is one more added to the excellent series of county histories

of the birds of the British Isles that have been published in recent years

by Messrs. Witherby, and is thoroughly up to the standard of those

that have gone before. It deals with one of the best known districts of

Scotland, and represents many years of careful observation by an

author whose death prevented his seeing the fulfilment of his work

which was completed shortly before he died. But it will remain a

worthy memorial to his memory. It contains an excellent map and some

fine photographic plates.


[The Birds of Midlothian, by J. Kirke Nash, L.D.S., R.C.S.E.

H. F. and G. Witherby, 326 High Holborn, W.C. Price 21s. net.]



MR. SETH-SMITH’S TESTIMONIAL

To the Hon. Secretary.


Dear Miss Knobel,


I am quite overcome at the kindness and generosity of the members in

presenting me with such a splendid testimonial—a delightful old Chippendale

bureau and a picture by my old friend George Lodge. I feel that I have done

little to deserve this magnificent present, for it has always been a great

pleasure to edit the Magazine and the members have helped so willingly.


I intended to write personally to each one of the subscribers but find that

this is quite an impossibility just now as there are so many of them and my

time is so very fully occupied.


I want to thank you and Mr. Sherriff especially for all the trouble you have

taken over this testimonial and I. shall be greatly obliged if you will convey

my very sincere thanks to the other members of the Society.


Yours sincerely,


David Seth-Smith.



