A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Avifauna of the Riu Kiu Islands and the vicinity and caterpillars

and caterpillars

White and executed along the same lines as Audubon’s

Text in Japanese but with Latin names and some English phrases used throughout

small black spot to rear calf of atlas volume

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A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Avifauna of the Riu Kiu Islands and the vicinity and caterpillarsPp. vi, 293 + 8 full page color plates (from painting by Juzo Kobayashi), 1 large folding map, 1 table. Later red morocco with five gilt decorated raised bands with gilt lettering in two panels and blind stamped birds in four other panels, over rose colored silt cloth, top page edge gilt, folio (15. 25 x 10. 75 inches). This monograph is based primarily on 14 months of fieldwork from 1921 1922 in the Riu Kiu islands (also known as the Loo Cho islands)