The Hawaiian honeycreepers : Drepanidinae / H. Douglas Pratt ; colour plates, drawings, and photographs by the author ; bird photographs by Jack Jeffrey ; with an appendix by Sheila Conant.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-333) and index.

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List of colour plates; List of abbreviations; Plan of the book, names and terms; Honeycreeper Topography; Frequently mispronounced words of Hawaiian origin; PART I: General chapters; PART II: Species accounts; Appendix 1: Honeycreepers in Hawaiian material culture; Appendix 2: Scientific names and families of plants mentioned in the text; Appendix 3: Scientific names, families, and subfamilies of non-Hawaiian birds mentioned in the text; Bibliography; Index

This book is the most up to date work on honeycreepers, covering the life history, relationships, and biology of the birds. The honeycreepers, with their bright colouration and canary-like songs, are famed for their unique evolutionary history as a geographically isolated group that has undergone a spectacular burst of adaptions to the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago. - ;The Hawaiian Honeycreepers are typified by nectar feeding, their bright colouration, and canary-like songs. They are considered one of the finest examples of adaptive radiation, even more diverse than Darwin's Galapagos fi.

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