Allan McEvey's Birds of the World

Allan Reginald McEvey became the Curator of Birds at the National Museum of Victoria in 1955. For the next 30 years he made an invaluable contribution to the museum’s ornithological collection, particularly to the avian osteological (bone) collection, which he developed into one of the best in the world. He was President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) from 1968 to 1969 and was elected a Fellow of the RAOU in 1980.
In this notebook Allan McEvey details the world's zoogeographic regions and their avifauna, family by family, order by order, complete with sketches and maps.This expedition of 214 tasks is fully transcribed and validated.