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THE third and fourth sections of this pleasant work on popular British ornithology comprise the dipper, the thrush family, the warblers, the hedge sparrow, the starlings, the golden oriole, and the wax-wing. The work is professedly and necessarily very largely a compilation, and a vast amount of most interesting and valuable information has been gathered together from widely scattered and often very inaccessible sources. This is carried out in a manner deserving all praise, the more so that a reference is always given to the publication from which the information is gleaned. Nevertheless, we sometimes miss, in the accounts of some of our more familiar species, the charm often found in a first-hand narration, and in the case of some of the articles, e.g. that on the dipper, we do not find impressed upon them, or expressed by them, as much evidence of a personal acquaintance with the subject thereof as we might perhaps expect from those who undertook to write such accounts of well-known British species.
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The British Bird Book. Edited by F. B. Kirkman . Section iii., pp. 297“449; Section iv., pp. 169. (London and Edinburgh: T. C. and E. C. Jack, n.d.) Price 10s. 6d. net each part.
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The Lives of British Birds 1 . Nature 87, 350–351 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087350a0
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