BIRDS - Passerine
Wrens, dippers and thrashers.
London: Christopher Helm, 2001. Octavo, 32 colour plates by Barry Kent Mackay, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first comprehensive guide to the world's 83 wrens, 5 dippers and 36 thrashers. All but one of the wrens are endemic to the new world, with the highest concentration of species in central..... More
The birds of South America, volume one: The Oscine Passerines: Jays, and swallows, wrens, thrushes, and allies, vireos and wood-warblers, tanagers, icterids and finches.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Large octavo, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. This projected four-volume series seems to have been abandoned after the publication of volume two. More
Fairy-wrens and grasswrens: Maluridae.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Small quarto, illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. The fairy-wrens and grasswrens occur only in Australia and New Guinea. Part of the Bird families of the world series. Includes chapters on biology, feeding ecology, breeding behaviour, evolutionary relationships, and conservation. Descriptions of each species..... More
Fairy-wrens and grasswrens: Maluridae.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Small quarto, eight colour plates, lines drawings, maps. The copy of William and Wendy Cooper, fine copy in dustwrapper. The fairy-wrens and grasswrens occur only in Australia and New Guinea. Part of the Bird families of the world series. Includes chapters on biology, feeding ecology..... More