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Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle & Sharpe

10,000 Birds

Late June night at the Casino Estoril, then the largest casino in Europe, located in the neutral Portugal where spies of all colours met. Within its 400 pages, the Birds of the West Indies covers 712 species, 550 of them regularly occurring and 190 of those endemic to the region, many of them to single islands. The year was 1941.