[Book review] Proceedings of the symposium on birds of the sea and shore

The symposium, held in 1979 at the University of Cape Town, commemorates the 50^th anniversary of the Southern African Ornithological Society and the 150^th anniversary of the University. Quite expectedly, participants were predominantly South African, with a few Europeans and Americans. Thirty-seven presentations, plus a summary, were given at the meeting, but only 26 papers were published; the rest had Abstracts only. The book is divided into five subject areas: Feeding Ecology (6 papers), Patterns of Distribution (5 papers), Distribution Studies (4 papers), Conservation of Species and Habitats (6 papers), and Physiology and Breeding Biology (5 papers).