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A COMPANION volume to that on “Mammals”, already noticed in NATUBE, and like it a most useful work of reference. It includes the names of 2330 birds which have appeared in the London Zoo, and in addition gives the geographical races of many of the forms. All the essential catalogue information accompanies each scientific name—the most important synonyms, the geographical distribution, references to a good description and to a coloured figure where such exists. The English name Or names of each species is given—an. important item for the museum official who has to label birds, and, since each name is indexed, for the reader who wishes to know the exact significance of colloquial names used in books of travel and the like. So authoritative a list should help to stereotype the popular names of foreign birds, which are sometimes in danger of having as many popular as scientific synonyms.
List of the Vertebrated Animals exhibited in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 1828–1927.
Dr.
G. Carmichael
Low
Centenary edition in 3 volumes. Vol. 2: Birds.. Pp. viii + 832. (London: Zoological Society, 1929.) 25s.
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List of the Vertebrated Animals exhibited in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 1828–1927 . Nature 126, 128 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126128c0
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