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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StuartReeves" data-source="post: 1716521" data-attributes="member: 12155"><p>I have moaned before about the difficulties of using the 'Grimskipp' Indian field guide in the field because of the problems with finding the right page given the unfamiliar taxonomic sequence. On that basis I would certainly prefer a more familiar, or at least more intuitive, sequence. The complication in this case, and probably also in others, is that the fieldguide is essentially a cut-down version of a much larger handbook of Indian birds. In the latter it makes more sense to list species in some sort of taxonomic order, hence the fieldguide also ends up following the same sequence. In this case at least the sequence used in the field guide is determined by factors other than simple usability.</p></blockquote><p></p>