Birds of the Fiji Bush

#791
Title: Birds of the Fiji Bush
Author: Fergus Clunie
Illustrator:Pauline Morse
Publisher: Fiji Museum
Year: 1984/2007
147 pages

A very attractive little guide to Fijian birds, with much helpful information about habits, breeding, and other behaviors. Beautiful, large, plentiful illustrations.

Unfortunately, the text is extremely garbled at times. My guess is that this edition was scanned from a previous one and not then proofread. A few examples:

bright yell edging
the short tail hidden by Ion) hairy feathering
and at bizarre when moulting
Foral between ground and canopy

These are all from one description, and aren't the only errors in it. This is one of the more intelligible descriptions; though not all are compromised, some are so rife with errors that a mental running start is necessary to understand them. It makes me want to volunteer to read proofs for the next edition.