Volume 9, Number 12 · January 4, 1968
Fellow Travelers
By David A. Bannerman
Buller's Birds of New Zealand: A History of the Birds of New Zealand
by Sir Walter Lawry Buller, edited and revised by E.G. Turbott, with 48 color reproductions by J.G. Keulemans
East-West Center, 261 pp., $25.00
The Shore Birds of North America
by Peter Matthiessen, by Ralf S. Palmer, edited by Gardner D. Stout, with paintings by Robert Verity Clem
Viking, 270 pp., $22.50
The two fine volumes whose titles are given above, though poles apart in conception as are the countries with which each is concerned, are not inappropriately reviewed here side by side; for while the bird fauna of New Zealand and North America could not be more dissimilar, they have one close link—the migratory shore birds, which, thanks to the more enlightened days in which we pretend we are living, can be sure of a welcome at each end of their immense journey, in place of a shower of shot. It is in fact from Northwest America that New Zealand receives some of its most interesting winter visitors—the farthest flying migrants from their Nearctic breeding grounds to the New Zealand shores.
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