New Zealand Birds and How to Identify Them

Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, Fifth Edition, 1957.
For all who are interested in bird life in New Zealand this book in its successive revised editions has been an essential companion for more than forty years. The text opens with an interesting essay on birds in general and this is followed by a section entitled 'Hints on Bird Observation'.
The usefulnessof the book either for observation work or as a gift book is enhanced by themany plates in full colour and the large section of photographs illustrating native and introduced birds.