For Birdwatchers
p. 103 · Read in the full issue
One of the best-thumbed volumes ever issued in Australia is Neville Cayley’s What Bird is That, the indispensable hand book for everyone interested in watching Australian birds (ornithological variety).
What Cayley did for Aus tralia, two American ornitho logists, Austin L. Rand and the late E. Thomas Gilliard, have now done for New Guinea bird watchers. In just over 600 pages of clear print, and with the aid of 76 black and white illustra tions and five colour plates, they have given a detailed description of the whole island’s birds, systematically arranged with order and family grouping in dicated, Their book is a major contribution to Pacific bird lore.
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(Handbook Of New Guinea
BIRDS. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. $19.60.)