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re: Re: Field Guides

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Subject: re: Re: Field Guides
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 23:18:57 
Yes, the maps will be with the text, but I must admit I can't remember if 
Pizzey said the pictures would be with the text.  The pictures are being 
re-done.

Irene Denton
Sydney    NSW



Bill Venables <> Wrote:
| 
| The important question to ask about the new Pizzey edition 
| is
| "will the diagrams, descriptions and distribution maps all 
| be
| together on the same page?"  The few times I used Pizzey 
| as a
| field guide I found I was always thumbing back and forth 
| to get
| the full story.  
| 
| I also thought the Pizzey text was excellent, but as a 
| field
| guide it just was not well organised enough, and I think 
| this may
| be the reason why it became so neglected.  That, and the 
| fact
| that not all plates were in colour, of course...
| 
| Bill
| 

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