HUNTING and SHOOTING IN CEYLON. By Harry Storey.

(1907) 1969 3rd edition. 8vo (140 x 214mm). Ppxx,276. B/w photographs. Card covers.

A detailed account of Ceylon from a sporting point of view, drawn from the author's experiences between 1891 and 1906. Includes all representative sports of the day, including several usually overlooked as not dramatic or tropical enough. Snipe shooting, pigeons, small game hunting with dogs, tanks and tank shooting (wildfowling), quails, partridges, spur fowl, jungle fowl, pea fowl and others, descriptions of the hunting districts, elephants, buffalo, the Ceylon elk, deer; red, mouse, hog and spotted, the leopard, bears and water-hole shooting, pigs, fishing. Appendices on regulations, firearms, shikar equipment, shikar terms in Sinhalese and Tamil. Includes contributions from: Thomas Farr, E. Gordon Reeves, F.L. Reeves, M.L. Wilkins, J.J. Robinson, E.L. Boyd Moss, North C. Davidson, H.R. Spence, S. Payne-Gallwey, R.A.G. Festing. This 1969 edition is a reprint of the first edition, omitting some of the photographs; it includes the original introductory note to a map on p276, but no map. It has been re-set, hence the different pagination.