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020			_a0-907-446-12-4
035			_a(AEA)5B6A0386F0434BDA8A2A7CEA15CED687
040			_aAEA _cAEA _erda
050			_aQL 691.P6 _b.D56 1991
100			_aDickinson, Edward C. _940248
245		4	_aThe birds of the Philippines : _ban annotated check-list / _cEdward C. Dickinson, Robert S. Kennedy, and Kenneth C. Parkes.
264			_a[United Kingdom] : _bBritish Ornithoologists Union, _c[1991]
300			_a507 p. _bill. _c25 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a knowledge has, however, increased very considerably in the last 4 decades. This Check-list, bringing together a more comprehensive range of data than has been possible for 80 years, is based on an unusually extensive museum and literature search, and includes a great many substantiated unpublished records. Distribution and taxonomy of the 556 recorded bird species and their habitats are given prominence, and in particular breeding data are invariably given when any are known. Errors from earlier years, often repeated many time since, are pointed out and corrected. --Editor's Foreword
520			_aThis twelfth check-list in the British Ornithologists' Unions' series deal with an important zoogeographical area lying between the extensive Oriental Region, with its many Palaearctic passage migrants, and the Australasian Region. There has been no comprehensive review of the Philippine avifauna since McGregor's definitive A Manual of Philippine Birds (1909-10), which has formed the baseline for any subsequent compilation of records and discussion of South-East Asian ornithology. Since the stable peaceful times of the Victorian and Edwardians eras, when exploration and collecting were so ardently and rewardingly carried out, wars and politics and their inevitable restrictions have considerably reduced systematic ornithological pursuits worldwide. In the Philippines this has been particularly so from as early as about 1914 to about 1946
650			_aBirds _2sears
700			_aKennedy, Robert S. _940249
700			_aParkes, Kenneth C. _940250
942			_cFIL
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