The Birds of Africa Volume 6

Introductory price 99.00 for one month, increasing to 115.00. The beauty and scholarship of this now standard reference on African birds must ensure it a place on every ornithologist's bookshelf.

List of contents

PLATES vi

AUTHORSHIP vii

ACHKNOWLEDGMENTS viii

INTRODUCTION xi

ORDER PASSERIFORMES (continued from volume V)

Picathartidae, picathartes 1

Timaliidae, babbler. 7

Aegithalidae, long-tailed tit 76

Paridae, tit 77

Remizidae, penduline tit 106

Sittidae, nuthatches and Wallcreeper 123

Salpornithidae, Spotted Creeper 128

Certhiidae, tree-creepers 132

Nectariniidae, sunbirds 135

Zosteropidae, white-eyes 305

Promeropidae, sugarbirds 326

Lanidae, true shrikes 339

Malacontidae, bush-strikers 383

Pycnontidae, bullbuls 476

Prionopidae, helmet-shrikes 486

Oriolidae, orioles 502

Dicruridae, drongos 521

Corvidae, crows 531

Sturnidae, starlings 572

Buphagidae, oxpeckers 662

BIBLIOGRAPHY

General and Regional References 669

Family References 679

Acoustic References 707

INDEX 711

Product details

• Authors: C. Hilary Fry, Stuart Keith, Emil K. Urban
• Assisted by: Ian Willis (Illustration), Martin Woodcock (Illustration), C. Hilary Fry (Editor), Stuart Keith (Editor)
• Publisher: Academic Press London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2000
• EAN: 9780121373061
• ISBN: 978-0-12-137306-1
• Dimensions: 245 mm x 316 mm x 52 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology