Welsh Journals

BRITISH BIRDS The only MONTHLY illustrated magazine devoted entirely to the birds of the British Isles and Western Europe. Edited by E. M. NICHOLSON W. B. ALEXANDER A. W. BOYD I. J. FERGUSON.LEES P.A.D. HOLLOM N. F. TICEHURST With an average of 44 pages per issue, the new "BRITISH BIRDS" contains articles, notes, reviews, letters and other sections presenting as a whole a general picture of the advances of ornithology in the British Isles and of the more interesting birds and observations recorded from all quarters there is also a fine series of photographs of less familiar birds. Annual subscription (12 issues) £ 2 0.0 (includes postage and despatch) H. F. & G. WITHERBY, LTD., 5, WARWICK COURT, LONDON, W.C.I. DENT: Books by R. M. Lockley The Seals & the Curragh R. M. Lockley for the first time enables us to enter into the home life of these great Atlantic seals. The reader is held from the first sentence of the first chapter, and he lives with the author through his days and nights of seal watching the author tells how he reached, not without danger, the remote seal colony, sailing thither alone in his curragh or coracle, and sleeping beneath it, hauled above reach of the tide. The photographs are excellent.Country Fair. With 8 photographs, and drawings. 16s. Puffins Twenty years' observation of a bird which men think ridiculous because it resembles a ridiculous man No more elaborate or con- vincing information about the puffin is likely to be available.FRED. LAWS, News Chronicle. 16 pages of photographs, drawings by NANCY CATFORD, colour frontis by CHARLES TUNNICLIFFE. 18/- Shearwaters I think Hudson would have en- joyed Mr. Lockley's book, which is fascinating to read and which seems, at any rate to the layman, to be the last word on its subject.u- HOWARD SPRING, Country Life. 20 pages of illus. Cheaper Edn. 6/- At all Booksellers Publishers: J. M. DENT & SONS LTD., Bedford St., London, W.C.2