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Bustards, Hemipodes, and Sandgrouse: Birds of Dry Places

Door Paul A. Johnsgard

Categorie	Algemeen Vogels
Boeknummer	#364117-KG11
Titel	Bustards, Hemipodes, and Sandgrouse: Birds of Dry Places
Auteur	Johnsgard, Paul A.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1991
ISBN10	0198576986
ISBN13	9780198576983
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, coloured endpapers, illustrated with b/w drawings in the text and with colour plates, 4to.
Samenvatting	The bustards, hemipodes, and sandgrouse represent three taxonomically distinct and diverse families. Most of their members have become adapted to life in deserts, semi-deserts, or steppes of the Old World. This is the first monograph covering any of these groups, and is a companion volume to Paul Johnsgard's The Pheasants of the World and The Quails, Partridges and Francolins of the World. It covers all fifty-one extant species, many of which are rare or endangered, and all but one of them are illustrated by paintings by Major Henry Jones, done from specimens in The Natural History Museum, London. These paintings are owned by the Zoological Society of London and are reproduced with their permission. The lark-quail has been illustrated by a new painting by Mark Marcuson. The text includes c... (Lees verder)omparative chapters on the taxonomy and phylogeny of the three bird groups, their zoogeographic patterns, social behavior, breeding biology, and status (in cases of rare or endangered species). The species accounts include identification criteria, summaries of available biological information, and range descriptions. Keys for the identification of genera and species are also provided, and approximately four hundred literature sources are cited. Collectors of beautiful bird books will want to add this definitive and unique volume to their libraries; it is essential reading for ornithologists, zoologists, naturalists, and anyone concerned with the preservation of this important class of avifauna.
Pagina's	276
Conditie	Goed — Spine dust jacket slightly discoloured.
Prijs	€ 30,00

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