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Los Angeles Audubon Society, Published 1981. Hardcover, viii, 408 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition; illustrated with line drawings by Lee Jones, bar graphs and 60 breeding range maps; map endpapers.
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In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Pale gray cloth boards with black lettering on front and spine; mild shelf and edge wear, light scuffing and soiling to covers. Binding tight. Light spotting at top edge of front pastedown and rear free endpaper. Typed publisher's erratum slip for p. 40 laid in, with the bar-graph key on p. 40 corrected in pen to match. Pages otherwise unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket with Herbert Clarke's photograph of a Western Bluebird on front (jacket design by Lee Jones), photograph and biographies of the authors on rear panel. Jacket has several nicks and short tears (1/2 inch or less), creasing along edges, and chipping and fraying at head of spine; mild to moderate surface and edge wear with some color loss along edges and spine. Spots to jacket verso, not visible on outside. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Regional reference to the seasonal status and distribution of more than 500 bird species recorded in southern California, from Mono and Inyo counties to the Mexican border. The region is divided into Coastal, Desert, River and Salton districts, with codes for habitat. Month-by-month bar graphs show each species' abundance by district. Species accounts give range, habitat, migration dates, population trends and dated unusual records. Sixty breeding range maps cover 66 species. An annotated list of species recorded only from northern California follows the main text. Garrett and Dunn were young field ornithologists when they wrote it. Dunn was then consulting on National Geographic's forthcoming field guide, and he later became a lead author of its North American guides. In 2012 the two authors, with photographer Brian Small, published a separate photographic guide under the same main title. Contents: Introduction; Literature; Taxonomy and Nomenclature; Seasonal Movements; Population Trends; Districts and Habitats; Regional Maps; Bar Graphs; Species Accounts; Introduced and Exotic Species; Supplemental List; Additional Species from Northern California; Addendum: Recent Records; Breeding Range Maps; Literature Cited; Index.