The bee-eaters.

Vermillion: Buteo Books, 1984.
Octavo, dustwrapper, 304 pp. colour illustrations, maps.

Includes species accounts with accompanying colour plates of 42 species and sub-species and detailed maps. In addition there are chapters on the bee-eaters' evolutionary development, their food and foraging behaviour, reproduction and the meaning of plumage and social distinctions between the species.