Bird Life in an Arctic Spring; the Diaries of Dan Meinertzhagen and R. P. Hornby

Abstract

A PATHETIC interest attaches to this volume, as being practically a memorial to a most promising and talented young ornithologist, whose life was unhappily cut short almost at the outset of his career. The late Mr. D. Meinertzhagen was essentially a lover of bird-life, and thus a naturalist in the very best sense of that somewhat abused word. But he was much more than this, being an artist of great talent, whose sketches and etchings of birds form some of the most beautiful delineations of feathered life it has been our fortune to see. In addition to those illustrating the text itself, nearly thirty of these talented sketches have been photographically reproduced as an appendix to the present volume, and serve not only to enhance the general interest of the latter, but likewise to convey an excellent idea of the artistic capacity of the author of the journal which constitutes its main claim to attention.

Bird Life in an Arctic Spring; the Diaries of Dan Meinertzhagen and R. P. Hornby.

Edited by Mrs. G. Meinertzhagen. Pp. iii + 150. Illustrated. (London: Porter, 1899.)