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Perth: Paterson Brokensha Pty. Ltd., 1955. pp. xvi, 172. 8 colour plates plus 14 black-and-white figures, and 20 photographs. Contains subject index, and species index. Offset tanning to both the front and rear end pages front fold over torn, dust wrapper badly chipped choose one, and soiled, top and front edges browned. This book is a very adequate summary of an knowledge of birdlife. A great amount of reading of Bird literature is evident -- research necessary to present the matter in its proper perspective -- but this is illuminated by the water's own observation and wide knowledge of our birds. (Australian) it is a book of the open air, not of laboratory, and has been designed to field use.. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Reasonable/Poor. Illus. by Lillian Medland. Octavo- over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Natural History -- Birds.