Abstract
IN a foreword to this volume, Prof. Fairfield Osborn explains that it is one of a series brought out under the auspices of the American Committee for International Protection of Wild Life. The object of this series, which deals with all branches of animal life and plants, is to make known to the public “the wonder and beauty of natural things” and create a desire to protect and conserve the fauna and flora of the islands of the Pacific and neighbouring lands. Much of the pioneer work on the avifauna of the Philippines was done by two famous English collectors, A. H. Everitt and John Whitehead, and the Marquis of Tweeddale made the birds of these islands his special study. Macgregor's “Manual” was for long the standard authority, and some eleven years ago Hachisuka commenced an ambitious work, of which not more than five parts appeared-but like all that writer's work it is a mere compilation.
Birds of the Philippines
By Jean Delacour Ernst Mayr. (Pacific World Series.) Pp. xv + 309. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946.) 18s. net.
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KINNEAR, N. Birds of the Philippines. Nature 159, 386 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159386a0
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