Book review

Cuckoos, Nightbirds and Kingfishers of Australia, edited by Ronald Strahan. 1994. Angus and Robertson. Price $95.

Abstract

This is volume 9 in The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife, and despite the title actually covers 17 families of both non-passerines and passerines. These include pittas, lyrebirds, scrub-birds, larks, swallows, pipits, wagtails cuckoo-shrikes, trillers and bulbuls.