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Modern photographic techniques have now made possible for the first

time the full colour reproduction of the ornithological classic, The Original Water Colour Paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America; introduc- tion by Marshall B. Davidson; two volumes (Michael Joseph, 25 gns.). Methuen have also published The Birds of Europe, eighty colour plates from the lithographs of John Gould; text by A. Rutgers; two volumes, 90s.