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THIS will be a very welcome volume to naturalists in general, and ornithologists in particular. We do not know that everybody will agree with the principles laid down by the author, but he has, at all events, brought together a considerable number of colours, and given them very definite names for purposes of comparison, and a mere glance at the coloured plates will show how very important it is that every variety of green shown in Plate 10, for instance, should have its special name and admit of easy reference.
Nomenclature of Colours for Naturalists, and Compendium of Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists.
By Robert Ridgeway, Curator, Department of Birds, United States National Museum. Ten coloured plates, and seven plates of outline illustrations. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1887.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 36, 124 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036124a0
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