BOOK NOTICES
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Advice is here given on how to choose and use binoculars, hides, refer-
ence books, notebooks and maps, and the first steps in identification of
bird. There is also information on the care of sick birds, setting up a bird
sanctuary (the construction of nesting boxes being most valuable). Sug-
gestions on projects to undertake in connection with field studies are also
included and will, no doubt, inspire many newcomers to ambitious
schemes, alas mostly abortive, such being human nature. A list of
reserves, observatories, field centres and natural history museums is also
given, but this is so selective as to be of relatively little value. For Essex,
four museums, Hatfield Forest, Hales Wood. Abberton Reservoir, Bradwell
Observatory and the High Beach Field Study Centre. No Lea Valley
Reservoirs, the Naze, Walton backwaters, Epping Forest or Romford
Ringing Station!
Alwyne Wheeler.