The sixth and penultimate volume of The Birds of Africa has arrived. Eighteen
years since publication of volume one, Hilary Fry, Keith Stuart and Emil Urban
present colourful families such as the sunbirds, bush-shrikes and starlings.
Detailed but readable text, superb paintings and handsome production have
already ensured that this series is the standard work on African ornithology.
Volume Six continues the tradition admirably. Published by Academic Press,
£115, ISBN 0121373061.
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