Birds of Hawaii is not a drily scientific text, although it is clearly the product of scientific observation and study. It is enlivened by Mr. Munro's consuming pleasure in his subject and by his introduction of hundreds of interesting sidelights from his lifetime pursuit of knowledge concerning it.The book is divided into three sections: ""Native Birds"", ""Stray Variants to the Hawaiian Islands"" and ""Imported Birds."" Each bird is identified by its scientific name, its common name(or names), and in the case of native birds, by its Hawaiian name. These designations are f