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THE first volume of the new edition of Mr. Thorburn's “British Birds” has already been noticed in these columns (September 12, p. 390); the second of the four has now appeared. The coloured plates are again very beautiful, but the amount of space given to rarities, in text and picture, continues to keep the treatment of more important birds within rather narrow limits. One is glad to note, however, the figuring of so many as three plumage-phases of the great spotted woodpecker, and that the immature plumage of the gannet is also shown.
British Birds.
Written and Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn. New edition. In 4 vols. Vol. 2. Pp. ix + 130 + 48 plates. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1925.) 16s. net.
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British Birds . Nature 117, 447 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117447d0
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