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MODERN books about British birds are legion, most of them excellent, yet the most scientific of ornithologists looks back on certain books of his boyhood with a sigh of loving regret. Such, no doubt, was the feeling of Mr. W. B. Alexander when he picked up Johns's “British Birds in their Haunts’ ; indeed, he says in the preface to this latest edition that one of his most cherished possessions as a boy was a copy of ”Johns’ received as a Christmas present when he was seven years old.
British Birds in their Haunts
Rev. C. A. Johns. Edited and revised by W. B. Alexander. Twenty-fifth edition. Pp. xv + 286 + 69 plates. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1948.) 16s. net.
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PITT, F. British Birds in their Haunts. Nature 164, 422 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164422d0
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