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AFTER a gap of eight years due to the War and its after-effects, publication of this important work is resumed with the appearance of the sixth volume; and one is glad to note that the remaining two volumes are ready for press. The present volume covers seven families of the Passeriformes ; the eighth will deal with the weaver-birds ; and the eighth will contain additional information that has meanwhile come to hand on the subjects of the first five volumes. This last will certainly be an essential part of the work, as the first volume appeared so long ago as 1930, and something of the kind would have been necessary even if the period of issue had not been prolonged by the War.
The Birds of Tropical West Africa
With Special Reference to those of the Gambia, Seirra Leone, the Gold Coast and Nigeria. By Dr. David Armitage Bannerman. Vol. 6. Pp. xxxix+364+14 plates. (London : Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1948.) 35s.
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The Birds of Tropical West Africa. Nature 163, 234 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163234b0
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