The Ibis. Journal of the British Ornithologists' Union

(London, The British Ornithologists' Union/ Academic Press, 1966). Volume 108, No. 2, April 1966. 257 x 173mm; card wraps; bumped at tail of spine; pp. [161-312] + adverts.; 1 colour plate, 1 black-and-white photographic plate, numerous text figures. Good condition. A highlight of this issue is 'Polymorphism and parallelism in the African bush-shrikes of the genus Malaconotus (including Chlorophoneus),' by B. P. Hall, R. E. Moreau and I. C. J. Galbraith, for which a colour identification plate is provided. Other articles are: 'Autumn movements, moult and measurements of the Lesser Redpoll Carduelis flammea cabaret,' by P. R. Evans; 'The domestic fowl in Ancient Egypt,' by J. B. Coltherd; 'The sea-birds of the southeast coast of Arabia,' by Roger Bailey; 'Observations of the behaviour and ecology of the Flightless Cormorant Nannopterum harrisi,' by B. K. Snow; 'The Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta in Senegambia,' by Gill & Paul Gore; 'The status of two swallow species in The Gambia,' by A. Landsborough Thomson; 'The breeding season of the Madeiran Storm Petrel Oceanodroma castro in the Galapagos,' by D. W. and B. K. Snow; 'Autumn notes from Azraq, Jordan,' by R. A. D. Cameron and L. Cornwallis. .