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    Reference 1598 (90)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Murphy, Robert Cushman
    Title OCEANIC BIRDS OF SOUTH AMERICA: 2 VOLUMES A Study of Species of the Related Coasts and Seas, Including the American Quadrant of Antarctica Based Upon the Brewster-Sanford Collection in the American Museum of Natural History.
    Publishing Information New York: Macmillan/American Museum of Natural History,1936.
    Description 1st Edition; 2 Volumes, illustrated from paintings by Francis L. Jacques, photographs, maps, and other drawings; Vol I, xxii, 640 pages, 6 coloured plates, 1-38 b&w plates, 61 text figures; Vol II, viii, 641-1245pp, 10 coloured plates, b&w plates 39-72, 62-80 text figures. Index at front of both volumes, plates at back of both volumes. Original covers. A nice set. A comprehensive look at avian life in this area. A classic of its field, especially significant for its descriptions of the birds of the Antarctic seas. Geographic background, hydrology, field work, family and species accounts include penguins, albatrosses, petrels, storm petrels, shearwaters, tropic-birds, pelicans, boobies, cormorants, man-o-war birds, oystercatchers, ducks & geese, skuas and jaegers, gulls, terns, skimmers. Still the most authoritative source on South American sea birds.
    Price £30.00
    Keywords qpolarq, penguins, albatrosses, petrels, storm petrels, shearwaters, tropic-birds, pelicans, boobies, cormorants, man-o-war birds, oystercatchers, ducks & geese, skuas, skimmers S1-Ant
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