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Title: Bird notes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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nus Phylloscopiis. There are also numerousluminative text figures of heads, wings, and tails illustratingdistinctive features between closely allied species. The parts already issued fully demonstrate what the titleclaims this work to be, and, in our opinion, when completed, thiswork will be the most complete and practical compendium uponBritish species yet issued. A List of the Birds of thk Gambia: By EmiliusHopkinson. D.S.O., M.A., M.B., B. Ch. (Oxon), TravellingConunissioner. Gambia; price 4s. Brighton: Farncombe andCo.. Eastern Road. The Author states in his Preface : This is an attempt at a list of the Birds of Gambia, which is based chiefly on the Ranges as given in the Brit. Mus. Hand List, and in Shelleys Birds of Africa. The compiler has also drawn freely on other writers who have dealt with Gambian Birds, and added his own notes on the local distribution of the birds he knows, the knowledge having- been gained during the 18 years he has worked in the Gambia Proctorate, E-O o
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o Corycspondcncc. 245 This first instalment is issued tentati\ely; it is hoped tocomplete tlie list in due course. To show the plan of the List we y;ive in full the first recordof same. 1. PIX-TAILED WIIVDAH. lidiiii scrcuct (Linn). H.L. v. 408; Sli. iv. i(). r. principalis (Linni. Cal. xiii., 20^: lUitkT, Furcii^ii Finches in Captivity. Plato jiaj^-e _79. Rwgk: Tro))ical Africa. tll.L. Africa generally south of about 17 N. lat. Also the islands of St. Thomas and Iernando Po. Sh. Common in the (lambia. but not very noticeable during the dry season when out of colour, but a g;oocl many are to be found in the catchers cages, and towards the beginning of and during the rains they are quite conunon in suitable places. As a painstaking writer on Gambian Birds Dr. Hopkinsonis well known to readers of Bird Xotks, and this, his latesteffort, will be welcomed l^y all interested in African birds, andwill be indispensable to their bookshelves. ^-f-^ Correspondence. SHORT ECLIPSE PERIOD O

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