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Re: Magnificent "Magnificent Mihirungs"
I agree, having just received my copy as well. MM is
truly a magnificent, richly illustrated and
fascinating book, and would still be so even if it
hadn't been graced by Peter Trussler's great jacket
art.
--Mark Hallett
--- Ronald Orenstein <ornstn@rogers.com> wrote:
> I have been off list for a couple of weeks, so I
> don't know if this is news
> or not -- but I have just received my copy of
> "Magnificent Mihirungs: The
> Colossal Flightless Birds of the Australian
> Dreamtime" by Peter Murray and
> Pat Vickers Rich, and I must say that if a
> preliminary inspection is any
> guide, purchasing this book should be an absolute
> no-brainer for anyone
> interested in avian paleontology (or even in
> dinosaurs). Certainly there
> has never been so much information in one place
> about the Australian
> Dromornithidae, and if that doesn't interest you the
> book concludes with an
> extremely useful gazetteer of the avian skeleton. I
> won't go into detail
> on what the book contains, as I have only begun
> reading it -- my only real
> complaint so far is that it does not contain more
> paintings like the superb
> portrait on the dust jacket (fortunately, reproduced
> on the title page as
> well). I would have liked a set of full-body
> restorations of all the
> dromornithid species, but I will admit that such a
> thing would be window
> dressing -- the book is heavily illustrated anyway,
> and does include quite
> a number of restorations of featherless birds to
> show their proportions and
> how they might have walked or ran.
>
> --
> Ronald I. Orenstein Phone:
> (905) 820-7886
> International Wildlife Coalition
> Fax/Modem: (905) 569-0116
> 1825 Shady Creek Court
> Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 3W2
> mailto:ornstn@rogers.com
>
>
>
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