Review
"The two distinguished authors, and the publisher, have provided the ornithological community with a basic reference on a part of the world with an exceptionally rich and varied avifauna. An essential reference. --Wildlife Book Review
"For each species the text has sections on local names, size, field characters, status, distribution and habitat, habits, breeding, museum diagnosis, measurements, food, color of bare parts, voices and calls, and migration as appropriate, plus a distribution map and often a text figure. An excellent production which belongs in every major library concerned with ornithology. Highly recommended." --American Reference Books Annual field
Product Description
1200 species of birds, in 20 orders and numerous families, are known in the Indian subcontinent. This handbook describes their distribution, habits, breeding biology, diet, voice, and other features. Over 100 plates and systematic keys in the text help with identification. Maps show the distribution of many migratory and spatially restricted forms, and a number of line drawings illustrate diagnostic features such as bills and feet. This new compact edition brings together the text of all ten volumes of the original handbook , with 106 plates by the famous American bird painter John Henry Dick depicting all the bird species found in that region. The text and black-and-white text illustrations of the handbook appear here photographically reduced by 30%, with four pages of the original occupying one page of the compact edition . The colour plates appear in the same size as in the original editions. Readership; scholars and students of ornithology and zoology.
