Reviews

British Bird Vocabulary: an aural index. Victor Lewis. 1980. Tape recordings in six volumes: 1-towns, parks and gardens; 2-farmland; 3-woodland; 4-copse and hedgerow; 5-heathland, mountain and moorland; 6-freshwater margins and marshland. Available through the B.T.O., Tring. Price £8.75 per volume, or discount £50 per set of six., by Kevin Baker The Hawaiian Goose. Janet Kear and A. J. Berger. 1980. T. & A. D. Poyser, Calton. Pp. 154. Price £9.00., by Chris Mead Handbuch der Vögel Mitteleuropas. Band 9, Columbiformes-Piciformes. U. N. Glutz von Blotzheim and K. M. Bauer (editors). 1980. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden. Pp. 1,148. Price DM208., by Robert Hudson Atlas des Oiseaux Nicheurs de Suisse. Edited and published by Schweizerische Vogelwarte Sempach. 1980. Available from Schweizerische Vogelwarte, CH-6204 Sempach, Switzerland. Pp. 462. Price Swiss francs 58-plus postage., by Peter Lack Vocal Communication in Birds. Clive K. Catchpole. 1979. Edward Arnold, London (Studies in Biology no. 115). Pp. 68. Price £2.40., by Chris Mead The Birds Around Us. Geoff Moon. 1980. William Heinemann (NZ) Ltd., Auckland. Pp. 207. Price £20.00., by Chris Mead Frontiers of Bird Identification: a British Birds guide to some difficult species. J. T. R. Sharrock (editor). 1980. Macmillan Journals Ltd, London. Pp. 272. Price £7.95., by John Marchant Some Adaptations of Marsh-Nesting Blackbirds. Gordon H. Orians. 1980. Princeton University Press, New Jersey. Pp. 295. Price £4.45 (paperback) or £10 (hardback)., by Robert Hudson Discover Birds. Ian Wallace. 1979. André Deutsch, London. Pp. 127. Price £4.95., Chris Mead ALSO RECEIVED Indian Hill Birds. Salim Ali. 1980. Oxford University Press. Pp. 188. Price £11.95. Birdwatcher at Large. Bruce Campbell. 1979. J. M. Dent & Sons, London. Pp. 272. Price £7.95. The Birds of Lundy. J. N. Dymond. 1980. Devon Birdwatching & Preservation Society. Pp. 80. No price given. The Guinness Book of Woodland Birds. Michael Everett. 1980. Guinness Superlatives Ltd., Enfield. Pp. 160. Price £3.95. Contrasts in Behavior. E. S. Reese and F. J. Lighter (editors). 1978. John Wiley & Sons, Baffins Lane, Chichester. Pp. 406. Price £18. Care and Rehabilitation of Injured Owls. Katherine McKeever. 1979. W. F. Rannie, Lincoln, Ontario. Pp. 112 in ring binder. Price $10. By Robert Hudson