Author: Nakamura, Tsukasa and Yoda, Masauo
Title: Birds in Yamanishi, Japan.
Description: Kofu: Yamanishi Niti-Niti Press, 1977. First edition. Pp. 377, (1); 29 color photo-plates, 3 maps, 125+ text-figures (black-and-white photos and line-drawings), 3 maps. Pale green stiff wrappers lettered in black, color pictorial dust jacket, sm 8vo (7.75 x 5 inches). This is a field guide to the birds of Yamanashi Prefecture, located in the Chubu region of the main island of Honshu in Japan. The text is in Japanese with a 2 page summary in English at the end. Latin names and common names in English appear at the top of the page for each bird described in Japanese. Inscribed by the first author, Nakamura, to ornithologist Oliver L. Austin (past Director of the Austin Ornithological Research Center in Wellfleet, Massachusetts and past Curator of Ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History), on the front endpaper. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket..

Keywords: Ornithology birds Japan Japanese birds Commodore M. C. Perry Expedition 1852-1854 avifauna John Cassin


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