THE SPORT OF BIRD-STUDY: A BOOK FOR YOUNG OR ACTIVE PEOPLE. By Herbert Keightley Job.

(1909) 1909 1st UK edition. 8vo (158 x 217mm). Ppxvi,312,iv. B/w photograph plates by the author, top edge gilt. Green titles to green cloth, spine titled in gilt.

First published by The Outing Publishing Company, Deposit, New York. "Profusely illustrated with photographs from life by the author." The author seeks out birds, camera in hand, showing readers how to repeat the trick themselves. Popularising natural history from the earlier days of camera ownership amongst the population. Numerous good photographs. Chapters include: The appeal of the sport; Hunting game-birds with the camera (upland game birds); The robbers of the falls, and others (hawks); The bird of night (owls); Strange bed-fellows (cuckoos and kingfishers); Knights of the chisel (woodpeckers); Birds with a handicap (goatsuckers and hummers); Professional fly-catching (flycatchers); Crow relatives (crows, jays, blackbirds, etc); Our priceless swallows and swifts; Four neighbours diverse (tanagers, waxwings, shrikes, vireos); Feathered gems (the warblers); Thrush cousins (thrashers, wrens, titmice, kinglets, thrushes, etc); Water-bird waifs (wading and swimming birds); The bird-house of science of N.E. North America; A bird calendar; List of the birds to observed in Litchfield County, Connecticut.