John Leonard wrote:
>I guess that there will be a sort of sport of picking up errors in the
>guide, and not mentioning the 99.9999999999999% of facts in it that are
>correct.......
....I couldn't help disbelieving the distribution maps for three of the
northern Australian Pigeons - Squatter, Flock and something else I think
they were, I think on p253??? - which had them throughout Tassie as well as
their better known distributions. A shame its not true in a way cause I
might have had a (slightly) better chance of seeing them sooner.
>Apart from that I'm lost in admiration......
Yes, it is a superb book combining the best of the old Pizzey and the
Simpson & Day. I still think the S&D does a better job of painting the
birds in more typical and diagnostic attitudes than the P&K where they are
virtually all looking the same way and all in profile.
but I am glad I was able to get in early and reserve three of the
originals. Am looking forward to getting them!
Harvey
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Harvey D. Perkins
Divn Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Faculty of Science
Australian National University | Editor, Gang-gang (Newsletter of
Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia | Canberra Ornithologists' Group)
ph: +61.6.249 2663; fax: +61.6.249 0313 | 42 Summerland Circuit
email: | Kambah, ACT, 2902
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