Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "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 South African Ornithological Society, and the album was edited by Austin Roberts. The illustrations were attributed to Norman Lighton although they were clearly copies of the Claude Gibney Finch-Davies plates held by the Transvaal Museum - Finch-Davies was neither credited nor mentioned as he had fallen from grace in the eyes of the Transvaal Museum. The album of 106pp appeared in quarto in cream boards and brown cloth spine, with a colour illustration of a 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.16x16px Media related to Our South African Birds at Wikimedia Commons"@en }
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- Our_South_African_Birds abstract "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 South African Ornithological Society, and the album was edited by Austin Roberts. The illustrations were attributed to Norman Lighton although they were clearly copies of the Claude Gibney Finch-Davies plates held by the Transvaal Museum - Finch-Davies was neither credited nor mentioned as he had fallen from grace in the eyes of the Transvaal Museum. The album of 106pp appeared in quarto in cream boards and brown cloth spine, with a colour illustration of a 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.16x16px Media related to Our South African Birds at Wikimedia Commons".