(1) Northward Ho !—for Birds: from Wild Moorlands of England to Moorlands and Marshes of Scotland and Shetland, Öland and Lapland (2) Birds from the Hide (3) Evolution of Habit in Birds (4) Monographic des mésanges d'Europe (5) Australian Finches: in Bush and Aviary (6) The Nidification of Birds of the Indian Empire

Abstract

THERE is no branch of zoological science which offers so wide an appeal to human interests and so many avenues for the acquisition of new knowledge as the study of birds; and so it is with books about birds. At one end of the scale are the systematic, cataloguing, dry tomes devised for the use of the specialist and no other-matter without much life; at the opposite end are those volumes which place all their eggs in one basket, the photographs meant to catch the eye arid the pence of a Nature-loving public-life without much matter.

(1) Northward Ho !—for Birds: from Wild Moorlands of England to Moorlands and Marshes of Scotland and Shetland, Öland and Lapland.

By Ralph Chislett. Pp. xvi + 188 + 44 plates. (London: Country Life, Ltd., 1933.) 15s. net.

(2) Birds from the Hide.

Described and photographed By Ian M. Thomson. Pp. xi + 108 + 63 plates. (London: A. and C. Black, Ltd., 1933.) 12s. 6d. net.

(3) Evolution of Habit in Birds.

By Edmund Selous. Pp. 296. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1933.) 10s. net.

(4) Monographic des mésanges d'Europe.

Par Marcel Legendre. (Encyclopédic ornithologique, Vol. 6.) Pp. 124 + 5 plates. (Paris: Paul Lechevalier et fils, 1932.) 36 francs.

(5) Australian Finches: in Bush and Aviary.

By Neville W. Cayley. Pp. xix + 256 + 21 plates. (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, Ltd.; London: Australian Book Co., 1932.) 12s. 6d. net.

(6) The Nidification of Birds of the Indian Empire.

By E. C. Stuart Baker. Vol. 2: Turdid"—Sturnid". Pp. vii + 564 + 6 plates. (London: Taylor and Francis, 1933.) 30s.