Boring birdwings?

"Butterflies of the Australian region" is a reference work cataloguing and showing most butterfly species found in the Australasian ecozone. The book is a good collector's item or coffee table book, since it includes the birdwings of New Guinea. However, it quickly gets boring due to its pinned specimens, extremely short species presentations and lack of vernacular names. This work is similar in many ways to Lewis' "Butterflies of the World", which could almost be considered an abriged paperback edition of D'Abrera's more voluminous work. Both books show butterflies from the collections of the British Museum. D'Abrera has also visited the National Museum in Victoria, Australia. I'm not sure how to rate a work like this, so I give it the OK rating (three stars).