The Tanagers: Natural History, Distribution and Identification

Very Good used paperback.  Crease to corner of back cover and a few back pages.

For ornithologists, birders, aviculturists, the scientific community, this is the definitive book on tanagers (Thraupinae), a subfamily that includes 242 species of New World birds.  Here for the first time the behavioral diversity of these birds is examined in a single manual, facilitating comparison of natural histories and presenting detailed aids to field identification. 

Illustration (32 color plates);  Maps (263 range maps) Identification, Sources, and Genus and Species Accounts.

This reissue incorporates an updated survey of recent literature on tanager systematics and natural history.