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THE BIRDS OF TOGO

R.A Clarke & J.F Walsh

mapThis is a further welcome addition to the BOU's stable of West African checklists and contributes to filling the geographical gap between Ghana and Nigeria,each already admirably served by previous BOU checklists.The checklist is valuable in synthesizing the results of earlier collections and surveys,together with unpublished data from private visits by ornithologists.This information is greatly augmented by the authors' own numerous field observations,made while working in Togo between 1972 and 1990.Probably more than any ornithologists previously,they were able to travel extensively throughout the country,often by helicopter into otherwise inaccessible places.Like the most recent in the series,this latest volume is packaged in an attractive hardcover,with numerous colour plates or habitat and bird photographs of a very high standard by the two authors.It has earned its place between the Ghanaian and Nigerian checklists on the bookshelf of every African ornithologist...Extracts from a review by Peter Jones IBIS July97

176pp.BOU checklist no.15.1997.Price £22.00