For Birdchatters, this comes out of a brief discussion on the Pacific
Northwest discussion group Tweeters about determining the sex of a
Chestnut-collard Longspur that just showed up in Seattle.

On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Patrick Scott wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Russell Rogers wrote:

> > In my opinion, the National Geographic Guide's illustrations of this
> > species is a little over stated.
>
> I have had the same problem with many species when using the National
> Geographic guide. I'm glad to hear it's not just me!

Both Tweeters and Birdchat have had occasional notes about poor
illustrations in the NGS guide. (Also some about Peterson's paintings,
but that's another matter.) Presumably there's going to be a 3rd edition
some day. It would be great to collect some of these notes and forward
them to the NGS editors, asking them to have their artists correct the
problems. Has anyone been saving any of this information? Is anyone
interested in collecting some notes on errors that we could send to the
editors?

Burt Guttman guttmanb at elwha.evergreen.edu
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