A Field Guide to the Birds of Texas

First edition, first printing. Very good hardcover. No dust jacket. Cloth rubbed at corners and spine.

From the preface:

Texas, as everyone knows, is vast. So vast that it can boast a greater variety of birds than any other state in the Union. In its mid-sections, East meets West, faunally, and people who live near its center line (Fort Worth, Dallas, Waco, Austin, San Antonio, and Brownsville) have long had to carry two bird books, one in each side pocket -- my eastern Field Guide to the Birds and its companion volume, A Field Guide to Western Birds. Or, if they use Richard Pough's excellent Audubon Bird Guides, three books.

When I was asked by the Texas Game and Fish Commission to prepare a special Field Guide for Texas, I suspected that this secession from the national Field Guides was due to the too frequent irritation of looking things up in the wrong book. However, I was assured that the motive was more idealistic.