BIRDS OF PREY. By Philip Brown.

1964 1st edition. Square 8vo (166 x 216mm). Pp124. Colour frontispiece, b/w photographs. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

"Editor Colin Willock first thought of this series of books when he was helping shape Anglia Television's Survival programmes on the relationship between people and wild animals in a shrinking world". The author of this book is Philip Brown, an authority on birds of prey and for seventeen years Secretary of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. This is a good introduction to the British birds of prey. Chapters include: The goledn Eagle; The osprey; The falcons; The harriers; The red kite; The buzzards; Sparrowhawk and Gos; Owls; Persecution and protection in perspective; Death as a vested interest.