The Birds of Natal and Zululand

(Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1964). Large 8vo; original green cloth; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xxxiv + 511, incl. index; colour frontis., and forty-one colour plate illustrations of birds, after the author's paintings; seventeen photographic plate illustrations of habitat; large, folding map at rear. Excellent dustwrapper a little rubbed on lower panel; donor's book label to front free endpaper; a little minor foxing. Very good condition, in a like dustwrapper. "P. A. Clancey has engaged in extensive original research over the years since 1950 in order to make this account of the birds of Natal and Zululand and all the immediately adjacent territories of south-eastern Africa as up-to-date and authoritative as possible. No work on South African birds since the early 1900's has given such detailed descriptions of each species, and much information, hitherto available only in museum and specialised ornithological publications, has been collected together in this volume for the first time. ... The fine series of paintings of birds has been specially prepared by the author. It is hoped that ornithologists will find this work not only a valuable reference book but also a source of much pleasurable reading." .