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THERE are to be five volumes of the “Hand- book of British Birds”, and the second volume which has just been published deals with the warblers, the thrush family, wheatears, whinchats and redstarts, nightingale and robin, hedge-sparrow and wren, the water ousel, the swallow and the swift family, the nightjar and the kingfisher, the woodpeckers and the wryneck. The cuckoo and its strange habits are described, and there is a series of photographs of a young cuckoo in the act of throwing an egg out of the nest. The latter part of this volume is given up to the owls—the snowy and the short eared owls, the little owl, and others.
The Handbook of British Birds
By H. F. Witherby (Editor), Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, Norman F. Ticehurst and Bernard W. Tucker. Vol. 2 (Warblers to Owls). Pp. xiii+352+30 plates. (London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1938.) 21s. net.
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G., S. The Handbook of British Birds. Nature 142, 1053–1054 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421053a0
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