A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Avifauna of the Riu Kiu Islands and the vicinity Publisher Osveta Publisher Place Bratislava

Publisher Osveta Publisher Place Bratislava

Text in Japanese but with Latin names and some English phrases used throughout

White and executed along the same lines as Audubon’s

Airmail postage is required for shipping to Europe

and notes for each species

A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Avifauna of the Riu Kiu Islands and the vicinity Publisher Osveta Publisher Place BratislavaPp. vi, 293 + 8 full page color plates (from painting by Juzo Kobayashi), 1 large folding map, 1 table. Later red morocco with five gilt decorated raised bands with gilt lettering in two panels and blind stamped birds in four other panels, over rose colored silt cloth, top page edge gilt, folio (15. 25 x 10. 75 inches). This monograph is based primarily on 14 months of fieldwork from 1921 1922 in the Riu Kiu islands (also known as the Loo Cho islands)