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Abstract Atlas of Wintering North American Birds—an Analysis of Christmas Bird Count Data. By Terry Root, 1988. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. 336 pp. Price hb £59.95, pb £33.95., by Les Underhill Handbook of North American Birds. Volumes 4 and 5: Diurnal Raptors Parts 1 and 2. Edited by R.S. Palmer, 1988. Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 433 and 465 pp. Price $30 and $50., by David C. Houston Ecological Change in the Uplands. Edited by M.B. Usher and D.B.A. Thompson, 1988. Special publications series of the British Ecological Society No 7. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford. 449 pp., 3 colour, 1 b & w photographs. Price £35.00., by Roderick Leslie Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology. V Edited by Paul H. Harvey and Linda Partridge, 1989. University Press, Oxford. 259 pp. Price £35.00., by Jeremy Greenwood Ecology and our Endangered Life Support Systems. By Eugene P. Odum, 1989. W.H. Freeman, Oxford and Sinauer Associates Inc., Sunderland, Mass. 283 pp., b/w photographs. Price £10.95., Tim Birkhead Raptors in the Modern World. Edited by B.-U. Meyburg & R.D. Chancellor, 1989. Proceedings of the III World Conference on Birds of Prey and Owls. WWGBP, Berlin, London and Paris. 612 pp. Price pb. £25.00., by Humphrey Crick Also received, full reviews of which appeared in BTO News. The Birds of Cambridgeshire. By P.M.M. Bircham, 1989. University Press, Cambridge. 280 pp., line drawings. Price £19.50. The Birds of Egypt. Edited by S.M. Goodman and P.L. Meininger, 1989. University Press, Oxford. 551 pp., 6 colour plates by Sherif M. Baha el Din. Price £70.00. Birds in Ireland. By C.D. Hutchinson, 1989. T & A.D. Poyser, Calton. 215 pp., b/w photographs, line drawings by J. Busby. Price £19.00. Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland. J.N. Dymond, P.A. Fraser & S.J.M. Gantlett, 1989. T & A.D. Poyser, Calton. 366 pp., many line drawings and maps. Price £19.00.