Article: The Bowerbirds: Ptilonorhynchidae.(Book Review)

THE BOWERBIRDS: Ptilonorhynchidae. By Clifford B. Frith and Dawn W. Frith, illustrations by Eustace Barnes. Oxford University Press, New York. 2004:508 pp., 8 color plates, 38 tables, 82 figures, 20 range maps. ISBN: 0198548443. $164.50 (cloth).--This 10th volume in Oxford University Press' Bird Families of the World monograph series continues the tradition of excellence established in previous volumes. It is written by two of the world's leading bowerbird biologists. They co-authored 41 of the 1,048 references cited in the volume, and one or the other was first author on an additional 20. They undertook a world study tour of major institutional collections to gather ...

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