Volume 11, Number 10 · December 5, 1968
Birds at the Pole
By David A. Bannerman
The Birds of Chile and Adjacent Regions of Argentina, Bolivia and Peru
by A.W. Johnson, illustrated by J.D. Goodall
Platt Est. Gràficos S.A., Vol. II, 448 pp., $22.50
Birds of the Antarctic
by Edward Wilson, edited by Brian Roberts. with Wilson's original illustrations
Humanities Press, 191 pp., $17.50
The publication in Argentina of the second volume of A. W. Johnson's book on the birds of Chile brings to a conclusion a lifetime of field investigation. For the first time an authoritative work in the English language is made available to students of bird life in Chile and some adjacent territories. Mr. Johnson and his friend Mr. J. D. Goodall, who is responsible for the color plates and maps, have demonstrated what can be done by two amateur ornithologists and explorers who, while engaged in business in Chile, have devoted their spare moments to the study of the birds of their adopted country. Mr. Goodall, besides being a self-taught artist, is a highly successful egg collector, as is the author himself. Between them they have discovered and described for the first time the nests and eggs of more than 100 species of birds. Both volumes of the work are entirely new and in no sense a translation of an earlier work in Spanish.
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