Our South African Birds

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Our South African Birds,
Ons Suid-Afrikaanse Voëls
Claude Gibney Finch-Davies
CountrySouth Africa
LanguageEnglish, Afrikaans
SubjectOrnithology
PublisherCape Times[1]
Publication date
1941
Pages106
bateleurs
from the book

Our South African Birds is an album of South African birds published in 1941. Printed in English and Afrikaans, it was issued with spaces for 150 cigarette cards distributed by a consortium of tobacco companies.

A foreword was written by John Voelcker, then president of the

broad-tailed paradise-whydah
pasted on the front board.

A companion volume titled Our South African Flora was published at the same time and was edited by Robert Harold Compton, director of the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town. The printing and design of both albums was done by Cape Times Limited of Cape Town.

References

  1. ^ "Our South African birds (Ons Suid-Afrikaanse vöels)". Wesleyan University. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
  2. ^ "Claude Gibney Finch-Davies". Graham Burrows. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 27 June 2011.

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