Oceanic Birds of South America, in two volumes The book is based on

The book is based on the entire body of published morphological and taxonomic information as well as on the author’s own observations of over 800 collections

Alca hoieri now Alca torda

University of California Publications

The author’s preface was dated February 5

Its comprehensive bibliography demonstrates in an impressive manner just how many treatises on the systematics and biology of the Dendrobatoidea have been published over the past thirty or so years

Oceanic Birds of South America, in two volumes The book is based onPp. xxii, 1245, 16 color plates by F. L. Jacques, 72 b w photo plates and maps, 80 text figures. Publishers original blind stamped cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, 4to. This first edition was limited to 1200 numbered copies, this is no. 923. The original tissue guards with captions protect the fine color plates by Francis Lee Jacques. Name stamp of the Ron Sauey Memorial Library on rear endpaper and top page edge of each volume,