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WE have received from the Trustees a copy of this carefully compiled and beautifully illustrated volume, which reflects the greatest credit on all concerned in its production, and should prove invaluable to all ornithologists and egg-collectors. As a matter of fact, it is somewhat more than is indicated by its title, for the exquisitely coloured plates illustrate the chief types of egg form and coloration characteristic of the various groups of birds, so that it forms to a great extent a manual of “oology.” We do not on the present occasion propose to review the volume in detail, reserving this till the work is completed. It may be mentioned, however, that the work is practically unique of its kind, the only other catalogue of eggs published by the Museum having been issued so far back as 1852, and treating only of British birds.
Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum (Natural History).
Vol. i. By E. W. Oates. Pp. xxiii + 252. Illustrated. (London: Printed for the Trustees, 1901.)
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L., R. Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum (Natural History). Nature 64, 600 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064600b0
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