We should all commend and express our gratitude to the editors, who have striven for exceptional artistic quality and scientific rigor, and yet maintained a timely publication schedule. These books have become so ingrained in our daily lives, as professional or amateur birders, that defining HBW simply was not needed. The vast impact that the 16 volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World have had on ornithology dawned on me recently when I read a scientific paper and noticed that the acronym “HBW” was used without a definition. Sadness because I have so enjoyed reading every volume of the series, and with this one it is coming to an end-or not! (see below) joy because this volume details some of the most exquisitely, beautifully plumaged of all passerine bird families: the tanagers, cardinals, blackbirds, buntings, and New World sparrows. Hardcover, $275.-It was with both sadness and joy that I received volume 16 of the Handbook of the Birds of the World. 81 color plates, >500 photographs, and 766 distribution maps.
16: Tanagers to New World Blackbirds.-Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, and David Christie, Eds.
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