Handbuch der Palæornithologie

Abstract

THE fossil remains of birds are usually only isolated bones. Even these are rare in most of the rocks which contain them, and those which have been collected are widely scattered among numerous museums. The few known bones of a Pliocene ostrich from Samos, for example, are in four museums in three different countries. We therefore welcome an exhaustive treatise on these fossils by Prof. K. Lambrecht, of Budapest, who has devoted many years to a study of the subject. He has not only prepared a critical summary of the literature, but has also examined the actual fossils in museums, and can thus write with first-hand knowledge. He has made many new observations, and he has also discovered important specimens which have hitherto been overlooked. His work is well illustrated with outline drawings and beautiful photographs, many of them original, and a few copied from published figures which are not readily accessible.

Handbuch der Palæornithologie.

Von Prof. Kálmán Lambrecht. Pp. xix + 1024 + 4 plates. (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1933.) 108 gold marks.