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Birds of the West Indies (ISBN 0618002103) is a book containing exhaustive coverage of the 400+ species of birds found in the Caribbean Sea, excluding the ABC Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago, which were considered part of South America. It was written by James Bond and first published in 1936 by the Academy of Natural Sciences as part of the International Series. It has been reprinted several times since then, including a September 1, 1999 edition from Houghton Mifflin and a March 4, 2002 edition from Collins. The book contains approximately 256 pages.

James Bond

Birds of the West Indies is perhaps best known for its existence, rather than the material in it. The book's author, James Bond, was used by Ian Fleming for the name of his popular British secret agent, Commander James Bond.

Fleming, a keen bird watcher while living at his estate in Jamaica owned the book. He later explained that the author's name was "brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon, and yet very masculine - just what I needed." The book has since become a collector's item amongst Bond fans and was featured as a homage in the twentieth James Bond film, Die Another Day
when Bond poses as an ornithologist while in Cuba.

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