Volume 26, Number 20 · December 20, 1979
Web-Footed Gentry
By Robert O. Paxton
The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds
by William T. Cooper, by Joseph M. Forshaw
Godine, 304 pp., $150.00
The Herons of the World
by James Hancock, by Hugh Elliott, paintings by Robert Gillmor, by Peter Hayman
Harper & Row, 304 pp., $65.00
Rails of the World
by S. Dillon Ripley, paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne
Godine, 432 pp., deluxe edition $400.00
Manual of Neo-Tropical Birds, Volume I
by Emmett Reid Blake
University of Chicago Press, 674 pp., $60.00
Eleanora's Falcon: Adaptations to Prey and Habitat in a Social Raptor
by Hartmut Walter
University of Chicago Press, 410 pp., $35.00
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region
by John Bull, by John Farrand Jr.
Knopf, 778 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Western Region
by Miklos D.F. Udvardy
Knopf, 852 pp., $9.95 (paper)
'To a novice it seems curious that men of the first intelligence should pay so much attention to web-footed gentry with wings.' So Dr. Edmund Porter wrote to a friend after hearing Charles Lucien Bonaparte—a nephew of the emperor—read a paper on the Golden Plover to the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences on October 11, 1825.[1]
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