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THE author is a well-known ornithologist, who has made two expeditions, of which the results have been published—one to the Peninsula of Sinai, and the other to the Magdalena Valley in Colombia—and these proved that he was not only a good collector, but also a keen field-naturalist. He then travelled extensively, and visited many parts of the globe, observing the habits of birds, and making sketches of every kind of scenery. The latter became a great feature in the plates of the “Monograph of the Swallows (Hirundinidæ),” which he brought out in conjunction with Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, who contributed the letterpress of the work, while Mr. Wyatt drew all the plates.
British Birds: being Coloured Illustrations of all the Species of Passerine Birds resident in the British Isles, with some Notes in reference to their Plumage.
By Claude W. Wyatt. 4to. Pp. iv. 25. (London: William Wesley and Son, 1894.)
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British Birds: being Coloured Illustrations of all the Species of Passerine Birds resident in the British Isles, with some Notes in reference to their Plumage. Nature 51, 318 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051318a0
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