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From: misan@ra.abo.fi (Annika Forsten DC)
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Subject: Re: Field guides for Mexico?
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Date: 20 Dec 90 14:16:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca's message of 13 Dec 90 09:10:48 GMT

In article <170104@kean.ucs.mun.ca> dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca (David Graham) writes:


>   This is an excellent suggestion, I think. The Peterson Mexican Field 
>   Guide simply refers you to his other guides for a lot of common N.A. 
>   species, so the Mexican guide *by itself* is not that useful. Despite 
>   what Annika says, however, the Peterson Mexican guide has been highly 
>   recommended to me by a birder here with a lot of tropical experience 

I'm sorry, but I can't remember having said anything bad about the 
Peterson guide, it was Edward's guide I wasn't too impressed with. I'd
bring them both along though, as well as a good US-guide. I quite agree
that you'll need a US-guide for the species that also occur in US. But
like someone said, the Spanish Peterson guide includes part of the US-species.

annika forsten, finland