A Field Guide to the Birds of East and Central Africa

London England: Collins, 1973. Hardcover. A Field Guide to The Birds of East and Central Africa. Message to previous owner to inside cover. Price clipped to D/J. This is the first field guide to the birds of Africa from Rhodesia to the Red Sea. Over 450 species are described and illustrated: all the birds that tourist is most likely to find, and also those of the rarer species that are most conspicious in appearance, flight, or voice. Notes on field identification, with their distribution for the entire African continent, are given on a further 324 allied species. The text gives details of plumage, size, voice, flight habitat and distribution. The plates, accurately and brilliantly painted by the author and Rena Fennessy, illustrate every species described in the text - 179 in colour, 280 in black and white - using the famous Peterson identification system. Illustrated. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) . 6th Impression. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Duodecimo. Hardback.