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The title of this book is a misnomer; it is actually a large (744" x 1014 ") 
one-volume alphabetical encyclopedia covering the birds of the world. The 
text has been prepared by scores of outstanding ornithologists. From America, 
the list includes Dean Amadon, Emmet Reid Blake, Eugene Kisenmann, the 
Hamerstroms, Robert Cushman Murphy, Sidney Dillon Ripley, Dr. Austin 
L. Rand, Robert Storer, and Alexander Wetmore, to name just a few. 
The contributors come from almost every country in the world; there 
is, however, a preponderance of English authors. The 380 or go photo- 
graphers also represent nearly every segment of the globe. To keep the 
book international in flavor, the orthography is entirely British, and an 
American reader will have to adjust his mind’s eye to such words as realise, 
behaviour, specialise, and so on. 
The New Dictionary is an extremely comprehensive reference work on 
birds; it is self-indexing and liberally cross-referenced. Here you will find 
general information on birds — structure, evolution, classification, life history, 
behavior, nesting, adaptations, relationships to man. Here, also, is specific 
data on birds, mainly grouped by families. There is a “List of Major 
Articles on General Subjects’ and another “List of Major Articles on 
Bird Groups” which will help you to find the topic you wish to review. 
Most of the time, you are likely to find almost anything you may want to know 
about birds simply by looking for the subject in alphabetical order. 
You will find the New Dictionary invaluable as a quick source of informa- 
tion, and enjoyable for just general browsing about bird lore. This book 
will easily prove itself to be indispensable to the serious student of birds. 
Almost anything you will want to know about birds or ornithology in a 
general way can be located readily in its pages. This book belongs on your 
bookshelf just as much as a dictionary of the English language. 
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