Subject: Re: errors sheet for seabirds of the world
Date: Dec 14 00:21:48 1997
From: PAGODROMA - PAGODROMA at aol.com


97-12-13, Dan van den Broek writes:

<< I recently bought the new Seabirds of the World by Endicott and Tipling and
I
remember seeing a posting about the errors in this book, if anyone saved it
could you please e-mail it. >>

Just happened to have it here, Dan. --Richard

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Subj: [BIRDWG01] errata: Enticott & Tipling's "Seabirds of the world"
Date: 97-12-04 09:03:22 EST
From: SUTER.SHERMAN at NMNH.SI.EDU (Sherman Suter)
Sender: BIRDWG01 at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU (NBHC ID-FRONTIERS Frontiers of Field
Identification)
Reply-to: SUTER.SHERMAN at NMNH.SI.EDU (Sherman Suter)
To: BIRDWG01 at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

In belated response to Paul Buckley's 6 Nov posting about possible
errors in the photo captions or ids in Enticott & Tipling's new
photographic guide to the world's seabirds:

The book's European publisher is evidently now distributing a short
errata sheet with the book. It mentions:
p. 33 figure #1: Shy Albatross: a full adult of the nominate subspecies,
on the water;
p. 39 figure #5: a Southern Giant Petrel on a nest [in the Falklands - by
the accompanying text, the location alone would eliminate Northern];
p. 53 figure #5: a Juan Fernandez Petrel [seems to be the same bird as
shown in p. 58, fig. #2];
p. 165 fig. #6: a cachinnans Yellow-legged Gull [but see below];
p. 183 fig. #12: a juvenile Kittiwake;
p. 208: captions for the Black Tern photos are mixed up [the problem
may simply be due to misnumbering the photos as the upper right is
shown as #3 rather than the #2 one would expect from the numbering
used on other pages]; "#3" is a juv tern & "#2" is an adult;

Mark Golley's review [Birding World 10(9):359 - Oct. 97] notes that the
juvenile bird is actually a White-winged Black Tern. Golley also mentions
a few other points:
the Yellow-legged Gull in p. 165 fig. #6 is a michahellis as in the original
caption [the location suggests this as well];
the subspecies of the Lesser Black-backed Gull on p 167 [the photo from
Norfolk] appears to be a classic intermedius;
the captions to the photos of the Herald Petrel (p 54? - can't read my
own note, it may be p. 59) are reversed: the pale morph is #5, not #4
while the dark one is #4, not #5.

Cheers and great birding.

Sherman Suter
Arlington VA 22201
suters at nmnh.si.edu
0741 EST Thurs 4 Dec 1997