Some Books of the Week
ENEMIES of the baby bird are legion—cats, late frosts, stoats, and the unscrupulous bird-nester, but happily understanding of and interest in birds have become more general in late years, and the last-named nuisance is, we believe, much less common than it once was. Mr. W. Bickerton's sympathetic book on the dangers that beset nestlings, and of course, birds still within the egg (The Baby Bird and its Problems, Methuen, 10s. M.), should help to make the countryside safer yet for bird-families to be reared in. There are two excellent chapters on the feeding of young birds, and the book is usefully inns- , trated with photographs showing puffins with their catches of fish, young peewits squatting among the dead bracken, and so on. We can endorse the author's opinion that his book would be of value to boy scouts.
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