Birds of Africa Volume VI

edited by Brown, Fry, Keith, Newman, Urban

This, the sixth volume in a set of seven deals with songbirds from the babblers to the starlings.

The new introduction brings the reader up-to-date with recent developments in the series and includes illustrations of evolutionary and biogeography of African birds. Diagnoses of the families and genera, with superspecies maps, are followed by the comprehensive species accounts themselves, organised under: Range and Status, Description, Field Characters, Voice, General Habits, Food, Breeding Habits and key references.

All species have coloured distribution maps and many are illustrated with line drawings showing nests and behaviour by Ian Willis. 36 superb coloured plates by Martin Woodcock illustrate all of the species covered in the volume, and numerous subspecies. Full references to research and sound recorded material complete this scholarly coverage.

The beauty and scholarship of this now standard reference on African birds must ensure it a place on every ornithologist's bookshelf. 742 pages.

Hardback £125.00 £112.50