MARCHANT, S. & PETER JEFFREY HIGGINS:
HANDBOOK OF AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND & ANTARCTIC BIRDS. 1:A-B.RATITES TO DUCKS. 2 vols.
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1990.
26,5 by 19 cm. 736 pp.; [4] pp., pp. 737-1400 + 96 colour plates. Numerous distribution maps, diagrams, and other illustrations in the text.
¶ First edition.
Edited by S. Marchant and P. J. Higgins (Co-ordinators), with contributions by S.J. Ambrose,M. Considine, S.J. Cowling, P.J. Curry, D.W. Eades, K. Fitzherbert, P.J. Fillagar, S.T. Garnett, M. Hewish, R.M. O'Brien, J.M. Peter, D.E. Peters (Dec'd), D.I. Rogers, and G.F. van Tets.
Colour illustrations by J.N. Davies.
Volume 1, part A: Ratites to Petrels; volume 1, part B: Australian Pelican to Ducks.
Includes extensive bibiographies to each species, and indices of Aboriginal and Maori names, as well as names in Dutch, French, German, Chinese, and Russian.
The first volume of The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (HANZAB), covers 196 species, of which 162 breed in the region.
The area covered by HANZAB includes Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, the Antarctic and subantarctic ilsands, Cocos-Keeling, Christmas, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Kermadec, Ghatham Islands and islands and reefs of the Coral Sea.
First of seven volumes published up to 2006.Publisher's cloth, dust-jackets (plastic coated), library stamps (withdrawn from the Stockholm Public Library).
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