H. Eliot An Introduction to the Study of Bird Behaviour.

by HOWARD

£125 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

HOWARD, H. Eliot An Introduction to the Study of Bird Behaviour. Cambridge: University Press. 1929. 4to. Original blue cloth and dustwrapper; pp. x + 136, 10 uncoloured plates, 2 charts; wrapper a little sunned to extremities, a little occasional foxing, very good. First edition, scarce especially in dustwrapper. Henry Eliot Howard (1873 - 1940) was an English ornithologist and the author of the celebrated British Warblers . He was most noted for his work on territoriality, which informs this enthralling book. He traces the lives of birds during breeding season - the trials and tribulations of which the plates depict in an unusually frank manner - and moves on to a discussion of the bird's mind. Throughout he examines the behaviour of the bird in relation to its territory, resulting in a pioneering, as well as engagingly written, work. SKU: 2116869

• Binding: Hardcover

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