The birds of China
By: Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee ; scientific editing by Eleanor D. Brown ; color plates by John Henry Dick, John A. Gwynne, Jr., and H. Wayne Trimm ; wash drawings by Michel Kleinbaum ; endpaper maps by Maude T. Meyer de Schauensee.
Contributors: Brown, Eleanor D., 1949-; Dick, John Henry, 1919-; Kleinbaum, Michel.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 602
Subjects: Birds -- China -- Identification.
Description: "There are 1195 species of birds belonging to 88 families occurring in China, but until now no one volume in English has described them all. Intended for use as a field guide as well as a descriptive catalog, this volume offers an account for each species with emphasis on diagnostic field characters."--Back cover
Notes: Bibliography: p. [519]-523.
Includes indexes.