Volume 14. Bush shrikes to Old World sparrows. Edited by J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie, 2009. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain. 2009: 893 pages, 51 color plates, many photographs and maps. ISBN: 978-84-96553-50-7. 212 Euros (∼$310.00 US) (cloth).—The volume continues the series on birds of the world with general accounts on all families and species of birds. This volume includes the Malaconotidae (bushshrikes), Prionopidae (helmetshrikes), Vangidae (vangas), Dicruridae (drongos), Callaeidae (New Zealand wattlebirds), Notiomystidae (Stitchbird), Grallinidae (mudlarks), Struthideidae (formerly Corcoracidae, Australian mudnesters), Artamidae (woodswallows), Cracticidae (butcherbirds), Pityriaseidae (Bristlehead), Ptilonorhynchidae (bowerbirds), Paradisaeidae (birds-of-paradise), Corvidae (crows), Buphagidae (oxpeckers), Sturnidae (starlings), and Passeridae (Old World sparrows).
The text includes a summary of recent molecular studies on systematic relationships, descriptions of each species and subspecies, their behavior and ecology, a list of references, and an index to the common and scientific names. The text was written by ornithologists who have conducted fieldwork...