Welsh Journals

conservationist, this magnificent volume is full of magnificent colour pictures, and full also of encouraging stories of success and chronicles of foreboding. Grzimek recounts the saga of the saiga, Martin Zucker brings biblical animals home, Lee Talbot unravels the web of wildness. We are led from African waterholes to the British hedgerow and, at the end, there is a list of 200 'places to see wild animals' the world over. It is a book you will want to dip into again and again and again. The Countryside in Spring: E. A. Ellis: Jarrold: 65p. The Jarrold series expands into every corner of natural history and the quality of production certainly does not diminish. This booklet and its companions for summer, autumn and winter, make ideal presents for children. Coastal Scenery (Professor B. M. Funnell) and Sea Shells of the Seashore (Heather Angel), both 40p., are recent additions in the excellent Jarrold Nature Series. .A Guide to Bird-watching in Mallorca: Eddie Watkinson, also contains much general information for the visitor to the popular holiday island. Available from J. Tidy, 9 Freewater Close, Ickleford, Hitchen, Herts., £ 1.90 post free. .A Guide to the British Landscape: J. R. W. Cheatle: Collins: £ 3.95. There can seldom be so much information packed between two covers. One is enabled to identify almost anything from garnets to waterwheels, and there are descriptive notes and glossaries galore. D.M. British Birds is the only monthly journal devoted to field studies of the birds of the British Isles and western Europe. Each issue contains plates by leading bird photographers. Prospectus from 61/62 Watling Street, London, EC4.