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A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA by John G. Williams
A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA by John G. Williams

A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA by John G. Williams

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ISBN: 0002120216

Publisher: Collins, 1972 

Hardcover, 287 pages

Introduced by Roger Tory Peterson. 8vo; original red cloth; pictorial dustwrapper; tape stains and remnants on endpapers and flaps of dustwrapper; signed by previous owner (renowned ornithologist Gordon Maclean) on front pastedown; pp. 288, incl. index; black-and-white plates. Fair to good condition. "This is the first field guide to the birds of Africa from Southern Rhodesia to the Red Sea. Over 450 species are described and illustrated: all the birds that a tourist is most likely to find, and also those of the rarer species that are most conspicuous 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.