Book Specs
Binding
Trade Cloth
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Published on
Dec 3, 2002
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
6.75x2.50x9.50 Inches
Weight
6.17 Pounds
About the Book
This dictionary gives an overview of the English, French, German and Italian names of birds occurring in Europe, North America, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and French-speaking countries. It contains 10,838 scientific names of orders, families, species and some sub-species. The relevant order and family are shown for each term. The taxonomy is that used by the different authors of the sources.
This dictionary will be of value to translators of scientific and general literature; scientific and botanical authors; environmentalists and ecologists; and scientific and lay readers of foreign literature.