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A GREAT deal of information useful to the young collector, for whom Mr. Furneaux has prepared this handbook, is to be found in its four hundred pages. There are sixteen coloured plates, some of which are excellent and none bad, and more than five hundred illustrations in the text. Those of birds are somewhat unequal; some indication of relative size would have been helpful. The linnet and the cuckoo are placed side by side, and the former is apparently the larger of the two, while on the opposite page the great tit is considerably bigger than the lark, and rivals the cuckoo in apparent proportions. If the length of the bird had been given in brackets after the name under each figure, it would have prevented misapprehension. We have dipped here and there into the letterpress, and found the information accurate and clearly put.
The Out-door World, or Young Collector's Handbook.
By W. Furneaux (London: Longmans, 1893.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 49, 52 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/049052b0
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