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The animal on the cover of Programming C# is an African crowned crane. This tall, skinny bird wanders the marshes and grasslands of west and east Africa (the Western and Eastern African crowned cranes, Balearica pavonina pavonina and Balearica regulorum gibbericeps, respectively).
Adult birds stand about three feet tall and weigh six to nine pounds. Inside their long necks is a five-foot long windpipe-part of which is coiled inside their breastbone-giving voice to loud calls that can carry for miles. They live for about 22 years, spending most of their waking hours looking for the various plants, small animals, and insects they like to eat. (One crowned crane food-finding technique, perfected during the 38 to 54 million years these birds have been around, is to stamp their feet as they walk, flushing out tasty bugs.) They are the only type of crane to perch in trees, which they do at night when sleeping.
Social and talkative, African crowned cranes group together in pairs or families, and the smaller groups band together in flocks of more than 100 birds. Their elaborate mating dance has served as a model for some of the dances of local groups of people.
Darren Kelly was the production editor and Audrey Doyle was the proofreader for Programming C#. Mary Brady and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Joe Wizda wrote the index. Interior composition was done by James Carter, Matthew Hutchinson, and Edith Shapiro.
Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is an original antique engraving from the 19th century. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with Quark™XPress 4.1 using Adobe’s ITC Garamond font.
Neil Walls converted the files from Microsoft Word to FrameMaker 5.5.6 using tools created by Mike Sierra. The illustrations that appear in this book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Leanne Soylemez.
The online edition of this book was created by the Safari production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and Madeleine Newell) using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, and Jeff Liggett.