PIRATES AND PREDATORS: THE PIRATICAL AND PREDATORY HABITS OF BIRDS. By Colonel R. Meinertzhagen C.B.E., D.S.O.

1959 1st edition. Large 4to (193 x 276mm). Ppx,230. Colour paintings by G.E.Lodge, b/w photographs, illustrations. Brick red decorative cloth gilt.

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 British Isles. Many good plates from paintings by G.E. Lodge and others.