JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET (Josh Hayes) (10/25/90)
This is not intended to be an advertisement per se, but I got
Princeton's latest mailing today and there are several books
that might be of interest to the travelin' birder (or the
furriner birder):
Raffaele, H.A. 1989. A guide to the birds of Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands. Revised. 220 pp, 25 color plates, 16 b/w
plates, 7 maps. Cloth: 39.50, paper 15.95 (T)
Flint, V.E., R.L. Boehme, Y.V. Kostin and A.A.Kuznetsov. 1989.
A field guide to birds of the USSR. Transl. by N. Bourso-Leland.
353 pp, 48 color plates, 71 line drawings, 303 maps. Cloth: 75.00,
paper 27.50 (T)
Ridgely, R.S. and J.A. Gwynne, Jr. 1989. A guide to the birds of
Panama with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras. 2nd edition.
608 pp, 96 plates (color). Cloth only: 49.50 (T) [The first edition
was a very fine guide; I can only guess that this is as good or
better, what with the increased range covered they have added over
200 species to the 1976 edition]
Pratt, H.D., P.L. Bruner, and D.G. Berrett. 1987. A field guide to
the birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific. 409 pp, 48 b/w, 45
color plates, 14 maps. Cloth 55.00, paper 19.95 (oversewn for
durability, so they say).
Hilty, S.L., W.L. Brown, and a few others. 1986. A guide to the
birds of Colombia. 836 pp, 56 color plates, 13 halftone plates,
99 line illustrations, 2 maps. 1695 native species plus 133 potential
stragglers are all described (Holy Cat!). Cloth 99.50, paper 42.50
(again, paper oversewn for durability).
de Schauensee, R.M. and W.H. Phelps, Jr. 1978 (?). A guide to the
birds of Venezuela. 424 pp, 40 color plates, 12 halftone, 41 line
drawings. Cloth 85.00, paper 32.50.
Beehler, B.M., T.K. Pratt, and D.A. Zimmerman. 1986. Birds of New
Guinea. 293 pp. 47 color pates, 8 halftones, 16 line drawings, 4
maps. Cloth 75.00, paper (oversewn) 37.50.
Pizzey, G. 1980. A field guide to the birds of Australia. 1980.
460 pp, 56 color illus, 32 b/w. Cloth 60.00, paper 19.95; not
for sale in British Commonwealth except for Canada.
Harrison, C. 1982. An atlas of the birds of the western Palaearctic.
322 pp, illustrated (?), 637 maps (!). Cloth only, 37.50, not for
sale in British Commonwealth except for Canada.
They're running a special such that if you order more than 25 bucks
worth of books NOT COUNTING ones marked with (T), you get 25% off.
I've had very good luck with PUP, and while the only book on this
particular list that I know (the Ridgely guide to Panama) is very
good, I cannot speak for all of them....I have no connection with
PUP except as an occasional but always satisfied customer.
The address: Princeton University Press
3175 Princeton Pike
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 U.S.A.
toll-free order phone number: 1-800-777-4276.
They take Visa, MasterCard, American Express.
What with Christmas coming up, this might be of use to some lucky
birders out there.....happy birding!
Josh Hayes, Zoology Department, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056
voice: 513-529-1679 fax: 513-529-6900
jahayes@miamiu.bitnet, or jahayes@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu
"Rest assured, my boy, the more narrowly you define what you know,
the more certainly your knowledge will be in demand."JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET (Josh Hayes) (10/25/90)
Whoops, I should have added that all the prices I gave are from the catalog and are in U.S. dollars; make your appropriate conversions if you use some other currency. Ta. ----- Josh jahayes@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu