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that it has been systematically studied owing to its inaccessibility. The

writer gives a list and short account of all the birds known to occur or

to have occurred in the locality. As usual, it is melancholy reading, for

most of the records are of birds shot, trapped, or otherwise “ obtained

There is a map of the Firth of Clyde and surrounding country

and several plates, and a very interesting “ introduction


E. F. C.



Parrots, Parakeets, and Budgerigars. By Rosslyn Mannering.

Pet and Livestock Series. Cassell and Co., Ltd., La Belle Sauvage,

London, E.C. Is. 6^. net.


This is another of the excellent little handbooks brought out by

Messrs. Cassell and Co., which have done so much to promote

the comfort and health of pets kept by the unlearned. It should be

studied by everyone who keeps or proposes to keep a Parrot, as it

deals with their feeding, housing, breeding, and treatment in health

and disease. Movable aviaries are advocated, plans shown, and no

trouble is spared to instruct the amateur how to erect them and to

arrange for heat, where necessary, and above all for the exclusion of rats

and mice.


Valuable advice is given on hand-rearing birds from the nest and

on breeding Budgerigars for colour variations. Even descriptions of

species and sexual distinctions are given' a chapter, and on the last page

a series of “ Don’ts for Parrot-keepers ” deserves the gratitude of birds

and bird-keepers alike.


E. F. C.



Birds op the Green Belt and the Country round London. By

R. M. Lockley. H. F. and G. Witherby, Ltd., 326 High Holborn.

5s. net.


In his preface Mr. Lockley says that his book is “an endeavour to

fill the pressing need for more information concerning the birds of the

country round London.” Accordingly he has planned a series of rambles

through the “ Green Belt ”, approximately 13 to 15 miles radius from



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