HI:
According to the New Yorker article, Meinertzhagen "borrowed" a lot of
material for his Birds of Arabia from the unpublished manuscript by
another ornithologist named George Bates. So it sounds like "Pirates and
Predators" should have been the title of his autobiography!

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Ian Paulsen
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
"Rallidae all the way!"