HI ALL:
In case someone might be interested in the last of the true Peterson
guides!

Ian Paulsen
Bainbridge Is., WA, USA
ipaulsen at linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us
A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
"Rallidae all the way"

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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 20:44:42 +0200
From: "Shilman, D (David)" <DSHILMAN at ORGANON.SRH.AKZONOBEL.NL>
To: BIRDCHAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] new Peterson guide

Don Crockett wrote on Tue, 2 Oct 2001;

>I contacted Lisa White at Houghton Mifflin about the
>5th edition of Peterson's Eastern Birds (she's the editor).
>She says that the 5th edition will be coming out in April 2002.
>She says that Peterson finished all but one plate for the edition
>before his death and that the text and the range maps have all been
>updated. I believe the text was updated by Peterson other than
>splits, etc. that have occurred since 1996. Paul Lehman was in
>charge of the map updates the last I knew.

Don

Just to confirm, and add a bit more...I contacted James Berry of
the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History which has no
formal connection to the Peterson guides. He confirms that the
guide will be out in April 2002 and that Paul Lehman did the maps.
He adds that they are the same ones he updated for the Large Print
Edition that came out a couple of years ago. He also notes that
"Robert Bateman did the forward, Virginia Peterson the introduction,
Noble Proctor and Pete Dunne finished the text, and Doug Pratt did
the one unfinished plate, the Flycatchers. Ginny Peterson said the
book was 95% done when Roger died (July 28, 1996) and that he
was working on it the night before he died."

Thanks very much to Jim for the additional information.

I'm really looking forward to the publication!

David Shilman
Toronto, ON
"Always wave to the locals!"

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