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Nature 438, 916 (15 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/438916a; Published online 14 December 2005
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BOOK REVIEWED-Birds 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.
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