DR. BULLER’S “BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND.”

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 279, 30 August 1872, Page 3

DR. BULLER’S “BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND.”

We have received by the mail from Dr. Buller the opinions of the English Press on the above work, and quote the following to show the high estimation in which it is held by the scientific journals. The Zoologist says :—“ A mind may he so imbued with the views of Darwin as to be blind to the evidence of his eyesight, deaf to the logic of facts ; but there is no proof that Dr. Buller is either ; he is evidently friendly to Darwin’s celebrated hypothesis, but sees, hears, and thinks for himself. Happily for science, the author for twelve years has held an official position in New Zealand which has enabled him to visit every part of the country, while his* frequent intercourse with the natives has greatly assisted him in acquiring the information required for making such a work complete. It contains a vast amount of the soundest natural-history teaclimg, and seems to combine in an eminent degree the new with the true. Thu illustrations in the first number, the only one yet published, are excellently drawn by Mr Keulemans, who always aims at the representration of living birds rather than the conventional attitudes of birdstuffer’s specimens. They are well coloured by hand, and thus the avork is rendered as ornamental as useful. We cordially recommend the 1 History of the Birds of New Zealand ’ to the readers of the Zoologist , and we sincerely wish it every success.”