Tucson AZ: University Of Arizona Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket; DJ clipped and has dampstain to tail edge of back. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. John Xantus, an amateur ornithologist and zoologist of questionable repute and checkered past: this book being his correspondence while gathering specimens in the Southwestern US on his way to becoming a renown collector for the Smithsonian Institution. Black and white drawings. The Appendix is an annotated list of birds recorded by Xantus. Well-indexed. Book is Fine in a bright, good-looking VG+ DJ now in mylar. ; Drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 255 pages .