. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. [ (i)] 272 BOOKS RECEIVED Howard, R. & Moore, A. 1980. A. Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Pp. 1-701 Oxford University Press. £ This is essentially a comprehensive list of birds of the world, culled from many sources and presented in a useful way by two amateurs. Mayr's sequence of families is used and each species is listed under its generic name (Anglicised names in parenthesis), the sequence bearing "most reference to Peters' Checklist, but where that list has been updated and revised, then the m
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. [ (i)] 272 BOOKS RECEIVED Howard, R. & Moore, A. 1980. A. Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Pp. 1-701 Oxford University Press. £ This is essentially a comprehensive list of birds of the world, culled from many sources and presented in a useful way by two amateurs. Mayr's sequence of families is used and each species is listed under its generic name (Anglicised names in parenthesis), the sequence bearing "most reference to Peters' Checklist, but where that list has been updated and revised, then the more recent version has been used" (evidently in a purely arbitrary way). Subspecies are treated similarly and are arranged geographically usually from NW to SE, and usefully, the country or countries where found are cited for each. An absence of running heads to indicate the main family included on each page in a book of 700 pages makes use of the index of scientific names constantly and tiresomely necessary. A scan through the nomenclature and sequence reveals a greater degree of accuracy than is shown regrettably by the references. For example, of 3 main works extensively consulted, the titles of two, Peters' Checklist of Birds of the World and Vaurie's The Birds of the Palearctic Fauna, are misquoted throughout, and in the authors of the Reference List of the Birds of the World Morony's name is invariably incorrectly spelt. This carelessness does not generate any confidence in the accuracy of the rest of the references at least. Production is up to the usual high standard of but the editing and layout leave much to be desired. Salim Ali. 1979. Indian Hill Birds. Pp. i-lvi + 1-188. 64 plates in colour painted by G. M Henry and 8 plates of black-and-white photographs. End paper maps. Oxford University Press, Delhi. £ (Received Sep. 1980.) A reprint, with a short new preface, of the first (and only) edition of 1949. Some 300 Himalayan and other hill species
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