The Birds of Africa
Volume VI
Picathartes to Oxpeckers
By C. Hilary Fry, Emil K. Urban, and Stuart Keith
Illustrated Martin Woodcock and Ian Willis
Published by Academic Press, London, 2000
First Edition, First Impression
In pristine condition, unmarked
In brown cloth hardcover, with a gilt device and titles to the front cover and to the spine, in 724 pages with more than 1,000 plates, text illustrations, and maps.
The Dustjacket: There is no shelfwear. There is no foxing. There is no sunning to the dustjacket spine. There are no tears, chips, or creases. The Book: There is no shelfwear. There is no foxing. There are no previous owners' names or inscriptions other than a small bookplate discretely to the pastedown
(Dr Mervyn D. Cobcroft - the renown ornithologist). All of the plates are fresh, bright and crisp - pristine. There are no missing, creased, loose, stained or damaged pages. It is complete and original.
Universally recognised as by far the most authoritative work ever published on the subject, The Birds of Africa is a superb multi-contributor reference work, with encyclopaedic species texts, stunning paintings of all species and numerous subspecies, hundreds of informative line drawings, detailed range maps, and extensive bibliographies.
The volume contains an Introduction that brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in African ornithology, including the evolution and biogeography of African birds.
Diagnoses of the families and genera, often with superspecies maps, are followed by the comprehensive species accounts themselves. These include descriptions of range and status, field characters, voice, general habits, food, and breeding habits. Full bibliographies, acoustic references, and indexes complete this scholarly work of reference.
This volume deals comprehensively with picathartes, babblers, long-tailed tits, tits, penduline tits, nuthatches, creepers, sunbirds, white-eyes, sugarbirds, true shrikes, bush-shrikes, bulbuls, helmet-shrikes, orioles, drongos, crows, starlings and oxpeckers.
The editors and artists have worked closely with other authors - all acknowledged experts in their field - to produce a superb reference in which comprehensive texts on every species are complemented by accurate and detailed paintings and drawings of the birds themselves.
Measures 25cm x 32cm x 5.5cm and weighs a significant 3.7kgs unpacked.
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