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DR. SHARPE may be assured not only of our own congratulations, but of those of ornithologists In general, on the completion of his heavy task and the issue of the final volume of a work the first of which appeared so long ago as 1899. No one who has not tried it can have any conception of the enormous amount of labour involved in a task of this nature, and when we add that the author estimates the total number of distinguishable forms of birds as close upon 19,000, it will be unnecessary further to emphasise the magnitude of the work just brought to a close.
A Hand-list of the Genera and Species of Birds.
(Nomenclator Avium turn Fossilium tum Viventium.) By R. Bowdler Sharpe. Vol. v. Pp. xx + 694. (London: British Museum, Natural History, 1909.) Price 20s.
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L., R. A Hand-list of the Genera and Species of Birds . Nature 82, 183 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082183a0
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