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http://www.lynxeds.com/hbw/special-volume-new-species-and-global-index
PRE-PUBLICATION OFFER UNTIL APRIL 30, 2013
PUBLICATION DUE MAY 2013
Our commitment with the Handbook of the Birds of the World
Series has been to cover in detail and illustrate every species of bird
in the world. This task has taken from 1992, with the publication of
Volume 1, to 2011 with the publication of Volume 16, covering the last
families of birds. However, a number of species genuinely new to science
have been described since the publication of their respective volumes,
and therefore are not featured in the 16 volumes of HBW. The Special
Volume will cover and illustrate all of these species, some 68, with
texts, plates and distribution maps in the classic HBW format.
Also, in response to the many requests from subscribers over the
years, the Special Volume will include a comprehensive, global index to
the collection, a useful tool which will enable users swiftly to find
the species they are searching for in the more than 12,500 pages of the
16 volumes. You will find more information about all the contents of the
volume in the enclosed brochure.
An unexpected addition to this volume is a section including the
original scientific descriptions of some 12–17 species (final number
pending peer-review process), all totally new to science. These
descriptions are the combined work of a number of renowned Amazonian
ornithologists, and highlight the massive importance of the world's
largest area of tropical forest.
The inclusion of all these scientific descriptions in the Special
Volume is of some additional significance because to find so many
species described simultaneously, in the same paper, one has to go back
well over a century. From our initial projected list for the volume of
53 species, we are happy now to present an overall total of 80–85 new
species, including those described directly in the volume.
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