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Two volume Slater field guide

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Subject: Two volume Slater field guide
From: Tim Bawden <>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:12:29 +1100
Hi Peter
 
That two volume set and the 7 Gould League bird books are probably as 
responsible as anything for getting me into birds. From about the age of 5 I 
used to pour over them continually.
 
You can pick them up cheap on ebay these days... certainly a forerunner to the 
newer Slater guides but with more text.
 
Cheers
Tim
 
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> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:57:18 +1100
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Two volume Slater field guide
> 
> I came across a reference to a two volume set called "A Field Guide to 
> Australian Birds", divided into "Passerines" and "Non-passerines", published 
> in the early 70s. I assume this is the forerunner of the more recent "Slater 
> Field Guide to Australian Birds"?
> 
> It seems to be about the size dimensions, but twice as many pages. Why twice 
> as many? More text? Bigger pictures?
> 
> I also note in the Wikipedia article** about it that 
> 
> "... it covers the political dependencies Norfolk, Lord Howe, Macquarie, 
> Heard, Christmas and Cocos-Keeling Islands. This is commendable; for, often 
> these outposts of the Commonwealth have been sadly neglected ornithologically 
> and for the first time a fully illustrated guide is available...". 
> 
> The inclusion of these islands on the Australian list (not Macquarie?) was 
> discussed here recently, so I thought it might be worth pointing out that it 
> may have been Peter Slater who started it.
> 
> **http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Field_Guide_to_Australian_Birds_(Slater)
> 
> Peter Shute
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