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Taking flight

Richard Grimmett1

BOOK REVIEWEDBirds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide

by Pamela C. Rasmussen & & John C. Anderton

Smithsonian Institution/Lynx Edicions: 2005. Two volumes, 384 and 688 pp. £55

S. Dillon Ripley is a titan of twentieth-century Indian ornithology, having written three major works: Synopsis of the Birds of India and Pakistan (Bombay Natural History Society, 1961), the ten-volume Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (Oxford University Press, 1968–98), and A Pictorial Guide to Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (Oxford University Press, 1983), the last two in collaboration with Indian ornithologist Salim Ali.