Language: Chinese with Latin,English name index
Published on: 1976-01
Hardcover
This checklist includes all the birds heretofore record from China. There are listed 1166 species under 81 families, with 911 subspecies in addition, totaling 2,077 forms, as against 1902 enumerated in the original edition of the publication.
Under each form listed, there is given, besides the scientific nomenclature with synonyms whenever considered necessary, a synopsis of all available data, though still incomplete and much scattered as they are, on the range as well as the actual time of occurrence within the boundaries of China
21 orders: 1. Gaviiformes 2. Podicipediformes 3. Procellariiformes 4. Pelecaniformes 5. Ciconiiformes 6. Anseriformes 7. Falconiformes 8. Galliformes 9. Gruiformes 10. Charadriiformes 11. Lariformes 12. Columbiformes 13. Psittaciformes 14. Cuculiformes 15. Strigiformes 16. Caprimulgiformes 17. Apodiformes 18. Trogoniformes 19. Coraciiformes 20. Piciformes 21. Passeriformes