LOST ANIMALS: EXTINCTION AND THE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD. By Erroll Fuller.

(2013) 2021 paperback edition. Large 8vo (190 x 246mm). Pp256. B/w and colour photographs throughout, colour illustrations from paintings and engravings, bibliography.

This book arises out of Erroll Fuller's earlier book, Extinct Birds, which was illustrated for the most part with paintings and engravings. In this new work, the author presents a collection of photographs of recently extinct animals and birds, along with an account of the last years of each species, as far as is known, and the circumstances of the taking of each picture. Chapters include: Atitlan Giant Grebe; Alaotra Grebe; Pink-headed Duck; Heath Hen; Wake Island Rail; Laysan Rail; Eskimo Curlew; Passenger Pigeon; Carolina Parakeet; Paradise Parrot; Laughing Owl; Ivory-billed Woodpecker; Imperial Woodpecker; New Zealand Bush Wren; Aldabra Brush Warbler; Kaua 'i 'O 'o; 'O 'u; Mamo; Po'ouli; Guam Flycatcher; Thylacine; Greater Short-tailed Bat; Caribbean Monk Seal; Yangtze River Dolphin; Quagga; Schomburgk's Deer; Bubal Hartebeest. An appendix gives full-page paintings of those animals which lack photographs of adequate quality.