Hello all,
See below from Syd Curtis, who is not currently on Birding-Aus.
Cheers, Carol
From: Syd Curtis
Dear Carol,
I would be most grateful if you would forward this to birding-aus.
I have received in the mail a copy of the book “Survival of the Beautiful” by David Rothenberg – Bloomsbury Publishing 2011. (No indication who sent it to me.) To my considerable embarrassment the author seriously misquotes me on the first page.
Years ago I guided Rothenberg to an Albert’s Lyrebird in the O’Reilly’s sector of Lamington N. P., and incidentally showed him a Satin Bowerbird’s bower. In the book he has me saying re the bower:
* the oldest artwork in the world * a structure made of dried grasses * blue pigment that they grind up from fruit pulp with their beaks * raid picnic tables up to ten miles away * have been building bowers for fifty million years
none of which I said, and obviously are wrong (or seem likely to be).
Fig. 2 on page 8, is a B/W photo of a bower. The caption says it is a Satin Bowerbird’s and clearly it is not. (And the second plate after page152 is the same photo in colour.)
I haven’t read on past page 2 (and probably won’t), so I can’t comment on the rest of the book.
Sincerely
Syd
(H.S. Curtis, Hawthorne, Qld.)
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