FOREST BIRDS
FOREST-INHABITING BIRDS. Twenty-four Coloured Illustrations with Descriptive Letterpress. Published by the Forest and Bird Protection Society. 15/- to Members of the Society. 20/- through the Bookshops. FE-VERYONE who likes birds will be ‘glad to know that this album has been re-issued. Though the price sounds high, the plates are so good, and the text so interesting, that enthusiasts will not count the cost if they once handle the volume. There is the fact, too, that what the purchaser gets is not merely pictures of birds, and not merely notes about birds, but reinforcement of his,
belief in the survival of our birds and through them of our forests. But potential buyers need not be afraid. There is no preaching, no fault-finding, no direct propaganda of any kind. Except for the melancholy "Cry of the Forest," by Leonard Cockayne, which is reproduced for the introduction, and a pagelong preface, the text is straight natural history, birds and their ways and their haunts. It 4s of course unfortunateunfortunate but inevitable-that the artist (L. A. Daff) had to work from museum specimens, which occasionally, but not often, look lifeless. The compensation is the perfection of detail, which the printers (Wilson and Horton) have reproduced faultlessly.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 18
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204FOREST BIRDS New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 18
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