The Natural History of Endemic Families and Subfamilies of Birds of Madagascar

Note: This is a first-draft translation and my French skills are limited. I used Google translate for the many words I didn’t know, and in those cases I can’t be sure that I chose the most accurate English words to represent what the French was trying to say. For the most part, I translated everything as literally as possible in such a way that things still make sense in English so I moved words around in sentences to make them make sense, but I left much of the phrasing and punctuation as it is originally. This is partly because it was faster and easier that way, but it was also partly because now someone can look at the original book and have a good idea of which French words correspond to which English words, which should prove useful to anyone who wants to practice reading French before going to Madagascar. It also means that many of the sentences sound clunky and awkward in English. There are one or two sentences in here that I couldn’t make any sense of, even with the help of internet translation. If you would like to see the original book it will be available in Wink’s office at some point and if you would like to ask me about the way I translated particular phrases or sections feel free to email me.