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THE fourth volume of the “Handbook of British Birds” is fully up to the high standard set by the previous three volumes. The birds described in the present volume are the shags, cormorants and gannets, the petrel family (including the fulmar and the shearwaters), grebes and divers. There are full accounts of the waders, such as curlew and whimbrel, the godwits, woodcock and snipe, red-necked phalarope, turnstone, dunlin and lapwing, dotterel and golden plover, greenshank and redshank, stone curlew and oyster catcher.
The Handbook of British Birds
By H. F. Witherby Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain Norman F. Ticehurst Bernard W. Tucker. Vol. 4: Cormorants to Crane. Pp. xiv + 461 + plates 93–125. (London: H. P. and G. Witherby, Ltd., 1940.) 21s. net.
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G., S. The Handbook of British Birds. Nature 146, 411–412 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146411a0
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