Author: Gilliard, E. Thomas [Gilliard, Ernest Thomas (1912-1965)]
Title: Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds
Description: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969. orig. cloth. 25x16cm, xxiii,485(28)p, Series: The World Naturalist.. 28pp photoplates (9 colored). Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Biography of New Guinea; The Origin of Animal Stocks; Discovery of the Home of the Bird of Paradise; The Era of Commercial-Plume-Hunting; Conservation & Poaching Today; The Evolution of Birds of Paradise & Bower Birds with a Suggested Sequence of Genera; The Evolution of Bower- Building in Birds; Introduction: Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds; Birds of Paradise; Bower Birds.

Keywords: Melanesian Ornithology, Bower Bird, Birds of Paradise, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Oceania, Zoology, Biology, ,