1959 1st edition. Oliver & Boyd. Edinburgh and London. Large 4to. Ppx,230. Colour paintings by G.E.Lodge, b/w photographs, illustrations. Decorative red cloth gilt. Book-plate to fep, pencil annotations. Good-plus in chipped dw.
Notes: The author's account of a lifetime's observations of bird behaviour, particularly instances of predation, theft, parasitism and symbiosis in a wide variety of locations from India and Africa to Europe and the Bitish Isles. Many good plates of paintings by G.E.Lodge and others. This copy contains marginalia by a former owner, noting similar observations in India and elsewhere.
