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From: dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark)
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Subject: Re: bird book - Australia
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Date: 13 Jun 91 01:57:08 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.135522.202@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu> rtp@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu writes:
>Expecting a trip to Queensland, Australia this winter.  What is the best bird
>book for Australia?  Many thanks, Richard Poole, Apopka, Florida

I prefer:

Slater, Slater, and Slater (Peter, Pat, and Raoul), 1986, "The Slater Field 
   Guide to Australian Birds."  Willoughby, NSW, Australia: Lansdowne-Rigby
   Publishers.    ISBN 0 7270 2085 4

343 pages.  Maps and text on left page, facing color plates on the right.
Nice shape (taller yet less wide that typical North American guides, fits a
pocket better).  All 756 Australian species described, and (almost?) all
are illustrated.  Eggs of all species known to have bred in Australia also
are illustrated, at the bottoms of the pages.  Birds presented in taxonomic 
order.  I bought mine in the gift shop in the botanical gardens in Sydney
on my first day over there in 1988.

David Mark
dmark@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu