. The Avicultural magazine. Aviculture; Birds; Cage birds. Reviezu : " Who's Who at the Zoo.'' 113 applies to all members of the Aviciiltural Societ}-) will find something of interest to them in almost every page. Miss Thompson, besides being a first-rate artist, is a very keen observer of the ins and outs of animal life, and she tells us many an amusing anecdote of the more familiar inmates of the Regents Park Gardens. The greater part of the volume is devoted to the mammals, but the birds are not forgotten ; two chapters being given up to the larger and more popular species. But the chi
. The Avicultural magazine. Aviculture; Birds; Cage birds. Reviezu : " Who's Who at the Zoo.'' 113 applies to all members of the Aviciiltural Societ}-) will find something of interest to them in almost every page. Miss Thompson, besides being a first-rate artist, is a very keen observer of the ins and outs of animal life, and she tells us many an amusing anecdote of the more familiar inmates of the Regents Park Gardens. The greater part of the volume is devoted to the mammals, but the birds are not forgotten ; two chapters being given up to the larger and more popular species. But the chief charm of the book lies in its illustrations which, with perhaps one or two exceptions, are excellent—we. STANLEY CRANE (Anthropoides paiadisea). (From Who's Who at the Zoo). have rarely seen better work—and show the author to be a most talented delineator of animal life. There are some twenty black and white plates, and over a hundred text figures, all from the author's brush and pen, and we can most heartily recommend the book to our Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Avicultural Society. [Ascot, Berkshire, etc. , Avicultural Society, etc. ]
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