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THE third of the four volumes of Mr. Thorburn's new book on “British Birds” has now appeared, and fully comes up to the standard of its predecessors. It contains a further series of coloured plates of high merit, although a few, such as that of the lapwing, are decidedly less happy than the majority. We are glad to see that the female plumage is portrayed in very many cases, as is certainly necessary with such birds as ducks and game-birds, two of the principal groups dealt with on this occasion. Both sexes of the ptarmigan are shown in each of their three seasonal plumages. We could wish, however, that the nestlings also had more often been included in the plates, as has here been so successfully done in the case of the ringed and golden plovers.
British Birds.
Written and Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn. New edition. In 4 vols. Vol. 3. Pp. x + 168 + 48 plates. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1926.) 16s. net.
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British Birds . Nature 118, 585 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118585d0
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