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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue XXIV, 15 December 1900, Page 1100

We think that when our readers have seen the Christmas number of the “New Zealand Graphic” they will admit that in claiming for it a premier position we do not ask too much. In former years the annual has always taken a first place, not only in New Zealand, but in Australasia, its coloured supplement being invariably ahead of anything issued by any other journal. This year another splendid supplement appears in conjunction with a number that is in every sense an artistic triumph. The subject of the coloured plate is “The Native Birds of New Zealand,” and on it are displayed in all their wonderful beauty of form and plumage, representatives of the colony’s feathered tribe. The picture is in a way a companion to the “Native Flowers of New Zealand,” which was issued last year with the Christmas “Graphic,” and is to be found to-day ornamenting thousands of homes in the colony. The birds should be as popular as the flowers. Passing from the supplement to the body of the annual, it is a picture gallery from cover to cover. Page after page of finely executed engravings, reproduced from special photos or paintings by our leading artists, delight the eye. One would say that all the scenic beauties of New Zealand had been copied there. It is an album of the colony’s attractions, and as such should find an honoured place on every table. No more appropriate gift could be sent by New Zealanders to their friends at Home than this uniqu* production, the attractions of which are more specifically set forth in another part of this paper. The price of the annual is one shilling.