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Abstract The Birds of Somerset, by E. M. Palmer and D. K. Ballance. Longman, Green & Co., 1968. 45 /-. 204 pages, 17 plates, map. A Guide to the Birds of Essex, by Robert Hudson and Geoffrey A. Pyman. Essex Bird-watching and Preservation Society, 1968. 12/6. 105 pages, map. Birds of the Malvern District, by M. Palmer-Smith. Published by the author (202 Pickersleigh Road, Malvern), 1968. 42 pages, 4 photos. Birds of the Antarctic, by Edward Wilson; edited by Brian Roberts. Blandford Press, London, 1967. 105 /-. 191 pages, 60 pages of colour and 60 pages with monochrome sketches and other illustrations. Buller's Birds of New Zealand, edited by E. G. Turbott. Macdonald, 1967. 150/-. 261 pages, 48 coloured plates. Australian Birds, by Robin Hill. Nelson, 1967. 150/-. 281 pages, numerous coloured illustrations. Penguins, by John Sparks and Tony Soper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1967. 45 /-. 263 pages, 33 photos, numerous text-figs. Les Echassiers, by P. Géroudet. Delachaux & Niestlé, 1967. 288 pages, 36 plates (24 in colour), 53 text-figs. The Bird Faunas of Africa and its Islands, by R. E. Moreau. Academic Press, 1966. 100/-. 424 pages, 65 figures. ‘Torrey Canyon’, Pollution and Marine Life (A Report by the Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom), edited by J. E. Smith. Cambridge University Press, 1968. 55/-. 196 pages, 29 plates (14 in colour), maps. Radar Ornithology, by E. Eastwood. Methuen, 1967. 75/-. 278 pages, 24 black-and-white plates, text-figs. Birds and Wild Africa, by William Condry. Collins, 1967. 30/-. 192 pages, 30 photographs. Travels and Traditions of Waterfowl, by H. A. Hochbaum Minnesota University Press and Oxford University Press, 1968. 26/6. 301 pages, 26 text-figs., numerous drawings. Second European Meeting on Wildfowl Conservation, Proceedings, edited by Z. Salverda. International Wildfowl Research Bureau, 1967. 40/-. 225 pages, 15 photos.