As well as extensive introductory chapters, this book comprises a complete annotated checklist, and all resident bird species and regular migrants have accompanying distribution maps. Liberia is one of the least-known countries in West Africa. Although a number of ornithologists have visited the country in the past, this is an avifaunal survey of the whole country, and it is based on the author"s many years of residence in Liberia. Of particular interest are two recently discovered endemic species which inhabit the region of Mount Nimba which straddles the border with Guinea and the Ivory Coast.