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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Two Jugs" data-source="post: 3142711" data-attributes="member: 73976">Regarding Cuba, the Garrido/Kirkconnell Field Guide is a great book to have when birding in Cuba. It does, however, suffer from several serious usability issues for a field guide. It is also getting a bit dated.1. It is rather large for a field guide, considering the number of species covered.2. The inclusion of vagrant species in the main body of text causes it to be too long. I counted 80 species (including two extinct) that could have been treated separately at the end of the main text. The extinct species even have their own colour plate.3. The index should also have been divided into three separate indices, English, Spanish and scientific names. The current index is very difficult to use.4. The reverse side of each colour plate is wasted with a greyscale copy of the facing colour plate. This has resulted in the book having double the number of plates actually required.5. The plates numbers are tucked away on the inner margin, making it impossible to find an illustration in a hurry. I renumbered my copy on the outer edges.6. The text on the plate does not give the page number of the corresponding text for each species, so a trip to the index is required again.Tony Johnson</blockquote>