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THIS little volume gives us the results of the author's observations on birds in a northern district of England. He divides his chapters into those containing the birds of lakeland, those of woodland, and those of the mountains, after which he devotes a chapter dealing with bird life month by month as he finds it to be within these areas, selecting certain birds as emblematical of each individual month. The author calls his book a diary, and, perhaps, it has lost some of its charm by his keeping too carefully to the form which its title indicates. We confess we should have liked less diary—entailing a good deal of overlapping—and more information and anecdote about the birds and their habits. In spite of this, though we are told nothing that is new, there is much that is of interest, whilst the book is easy to read and holds one's attention throughout. The photographs with which the book is illustrated are very charming, and have been well selected with the view of giving as varied suggestions as possible of the haunts of the birds discussed.
From a Bird-Lover's Diary.
Arthur
Astley
By. Pp. ix + 306 + 8 plates. (London: The Sheldon Press; New York and Toronto: The Macmillan Co., 1928.) 7s. 6d. net.
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From a Bird-Lover's Diary . Nature 124, 573 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124573c0
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