Table of Contents

Foreward by Richard Howard 7 Introduction 9 Avian Higher-level Phylogenetics and the Howard and Moore Checklist of Birds by Joel Cracraft, F. Keith Barker and Alice Cibois 16 The Sequence of Families of Birds 22 Presentation of the List 27 Acknowledgements 29 Checklist of the Birds of the World 31 Appendix I: Matters of Nomenclature 827 Appendix II: Notes on Bibliographic Details 830 List of References 832 Index of Scientific Names 884 Index of English Names 1017

About the Author

Edward C. Dickinson is the author of three books, including "A Field Guide to the Birds of South-east Asia" and "A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines". He is currently Research Associate with the National Museum of Natural History of the Netherlands, Leiden.

Reviews

As global communication rises exponentially, scientists and globetrotting birdwatchers have been in dire need of a standard classification to serve as the lingua franca of ornithology... [W]e now have a thorough and useful book that gives a modern classification of all the world's birds, down to the subspecific level, in a single volume. -- Andrew W. Kratter The Auk