Abstract
ORNITHOLOGICALLY speaking, North America is divided into four areas-western, eastern, middle America and the West Indies, the largest being the eastern one that includes the Atlantic seaboard. Mr. Pough writes of the birds of this area under the title of “Audubon Bird Guide-Eastern Land Birds”. He deals with the 275 species of land birds found in eastern North America in a concise manner, most helpful to the recent recruit to ornithology. His remarks under the heading of “Identification” are excellent, for he seizes on the outstanding characteristics of each species and tells the field worker what to look for. The colour portraits are also good and helpful, though it is to be regretted that no indication of scale accompanies them. If one did not know otherwise, one might imagine that the snowy owl is no bigger than the English sparrow4, the picture of which is most life-like ; however, in most cases all birds on a plate are drawn to the same scale.
Audubon Bird Guide
Eastern Land Birds. By Richard H. Pough. (Sponsored by National Audubon Society.) Pp. xxxvii + 312 + 48 plates. (New York : Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1946.) 3 dollars.
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PITT, F. Audubon Bird Guide. Nature 159, 80 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159080a0
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