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FW: Guide to HANZAB volumes

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Subject: FW: Guide to HANZAB volumes
From: martin cachard <>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:24:13 +1100
ooops!! typo alert...
 
that should have said ..."but all OF MY books get well used..." not more!!
& next line again, it should have said ..."but hey I don't MIND because the 
pages within MINE are in pristine condition..."
 
I apologise for my tardiness... xmas cheers from martin!!
 
> From: 
> To: ; 
> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:56:52 +1100
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Guide to HANZAB volumes
> 
> hi Philip,
> merry Christmas to  you...
>  
> I would do what Tony (...Russell I presume??) has suggested - I get stuck at 
> times myself too, especially with the honeyeaters being placed more forward 
> than i'm used to, which throws me off with the groups  afterwards...
> of course I know which volume the honeyeaters are in due to the spine 
> illustration!
>  
> so why not just do a quick mock-up of family groups by hand to stick on your 
> shelf under each respective volume??
> of course that wouldn't work for me as I lay them down on top of one 
> another!!! but all more books get well used with much wear & tear on the 
> outside, but hey I don't because the pages within are in pristine condition...
> that's quite an achievement living beachfront in the Wet Tropics!!
> cheers,
>  
> martin cachard,
> cairns
>  
> 
>  
> > From: 
> > To: 
> > Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:12:02 +1100
> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] Guide to HANZAB volumes
> > 
> > Thanks to all those who have sent the species index to HANZAB. Sure that is
> > useful to find a species. The books have a species list. I know that.
> > However before I get more of the same, that is not at all what I was asking
> > about. I was asking for an easily accessible one page list of which main
> > bird groups are in which volume, so that I know which book to take off the
> > shelf. E.g. something that quickly tells me that Rails are in Volume 2, as I
> > do not always intrinsically know that they are not in part 1 or 2 of Volume
> > 1. Then I can flip through the book or (rarely) use the index. Tony
> > understood with his "what you need to do is to go through each volume in
> > turn and make a list of the bird groups in each. Type up the list, break it
> > into sections per volume and stick a label on the shelf front below each
> > volume."
> > 
> > I could do it, it should only take me about an hour. I was just wondering if
> > someone else had already done this. If I get around to it I'll send it out. 
> > 
> > Philip
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tony Russell  
> > Sent: Friday, 26 December 2014 12:20 PM
> > To: 'Philip Veerman'
> > 
> > I often refer to HANZAB but frequently take the wrong one of the shelf
> > first. With the plastic covers they stick together and eventually that
> > creates excess use. Yes I know bird groups well but tend to forget the
> > sequence (which is after all largely arbitrary in terms of arranging orders
> > and some families mainly within the Passeriformes) in a linear sequence. The
> > spine says bird groups X to Y as end points but those in between those X & Y
> > groups can be hard to recall. I haven't found in HANZAB and wonder if
> > someone has done a one page list of the main groups (e.g. families) as
> > listed in each volume, that I can copy and tape on my bookshelf?
> > 
> > Philip 
> > 
> > 
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