Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
In this book, Burt L. Monroe, Jr., and Charles G. Sibley provide a checklist of 9,702 species of birds based on their 1990 book, Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World and the 1993 Supplement. The classification is that of Sibley, Ahlquist, and Monroe (Auk, 1988) and Sibley and Ahlquist, Phylogeny and Classification of Birds (1990).