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Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1967. first edition - h/c in d.j. The birds of Australia and New Zealand are prolific, (there are more than 700 species in Australia alone) but they are birds which defy generalization: no label fits them. There are birds like the Kiwi which cannot fly, the lyrebird which sings with the voices of other birds - birds which seem to be Nature's paradoxes. Almost every notable writer of fiction and non-fiction has at some time been inspired. This is the best of that writing. 25.5 x 19cm., pp. xv + 246, b/w plates, fine in d.j.