Abstract
MR. HIGHAM'S book is an addition to ornithological literature of which he and his publishers might rightly be proud. As the title indicates, the main purpose of the book is to present some of the remarkable coloured photographs which the author has so assiduously and skilfully collected. Altogether there are eighty-nine photographs, and many of them are cuttings from the three coloured films, “British Featherland”, “Featherland of the Fame Islands and the Bass Rock” and “Hungarian Featherland”, which were the products of Higham's resourceful camera. The photographs, from his Hungarian film, of birds which, like the purple and great white herons, are uncommon visitors to Britain, bring added charm and value for readers whose connexions with mid-European avifauna have been so long interrupted. The text is incidental to the photographs, and, although it contains little new for the specialist, would be of particular interest to the beginner as an introduction to the science and art of bird-photography.
Birds in Colour
By Walter E. Higham. Pp. 176 + 48 plates. (London: Wm. Collins, Sons and Co., Ltd., 1946.) 25s.
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H., T. Birds in Colour. Nature 157, 786 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157786b0
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