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A PLEASANT book is this, a volume of chat, gossip and discussion concerning birds, bird matters and problems. It is a book that can be picked up and put down, and picked up again, to dip into here, there and anywhere, the reader each time finding something new, readable and interesting. Many of the chapters are dialogues between Miss Price and her neighbour, "the Birdman", their discussions ranging over a wide variety of bird topics, from how the gods punished the raven for its sins by turning it a sombre black, to legends concerning the wren, and the story of the willow pattern plate. The author is a little confused with regard to Capt. Knight‘s well-known eagle, "Mr. Ramshaw", which she refers to as a martial eagle. Capt. Knight had a martial eagle ; but "Mr. Ramshaw", hero of many travels and adventures, was a golden eagle of Scottish origin.
Wonder of Wings
A Book about Birds. By Nancy Price. Pp. 253 + 16 plates. (London : Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1947.) 14s. net.
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PITT, F. Wonder of Wings. Nature 161, 460 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161460e0
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