The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World

Foreward by Richard Howard 7 Introduction 9 Avian Higher-level Phylogenetics and the Howard and Moore Checklist of Birds by Joel Cracraft, F. Keith Barker and Alice Cibois 16 The Sequence of Families of Birds 22 Presentation of the List 27 Acknowledgements 29 Checklist of the Birds of the World 31 Appendix I: Matters of Nomenclature 827 Appendix II: Notes on Bibliographic Details 830 List of References 832 Index of Scientific Names 884 Index of English Names 1017