All of the Arabian Peninsula is included within the region, as is all of Iran. The regional boundary follows this border east along 22°N as far as Gebel Elba, where at about 34☎ it moves north-east, thus excluding this Sudan-administered Egyptian territory, and reaches the Red Sea at about 22°N (sic!). Between 16° and 20☎ in northern Chad the boundary runs farther south at 18°N to include the Tibesti but not the Ennedi, then east at 20°N again to the Egyptian border. From the Mauritanian coast, the boundary runs inland east at 20°N through the southern Sahara to northern Chad, thereby including the Hoggar, but not the extreme south of Algeria nor the A ïr Massif in north-west Niger. To the north, the islands of the Banc D'Arguin fall within the region but the adjacent mainland coast does not, the boundary lying on the low tide midpoint between the two. At 14°N, the boundary runs south of and thus includes the Cape Verde Islands, before heading north at 20°W and then east again at 19°N to the Mauritanian coast. It follows the Arctic Circle west across northern Iceland, extending north slightly to include Icelandic territorial waters (12 nautical miles from shore), then at 30°W turns south to the Azores, with a minor westward extension to include Corvo, Flores and surrounding territorial waters in that archipelago, before continuing south along 30°W. There is a foreword by Robert Bateman on "art and nature"." The northern boundary extends into the high Arctic to 82°N, to include Novaya Zemlya, all of Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, then west to 10°W and south to the Arctic Circle, so excluding Greenland but including Jan Mayen. 60 colour plates of birds, 389 colour photographs, 577 distribution maps and more than 8000 bibliographical references.
Volume #3 includes the following taxa: Opisthocomidae (hoatzin) Mesitornithidae (mesites) Turnicidae (buttonquails) Gruidae (cranes) Aramidae (limpkin) Psophiidae (trumpeters) Rallidae (r Hoatzin to Auks.
There is a foreword by Robert Bateman on "art and nature".
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