250 pages, indexed, illustrated with black and white plates.The jacket is chipped head and tail, with loss to the spine's tail; the pages are tanned, and the plates suffer from damp affected waving, in all bar one not badly. Overall a clean, unmarked and solid copy. "This book is written in a slightly romantic vein, making much play with Maori names; but it deals in an interesting manner with bird-life in New Zealand, particularly the forest avifauna and measures for its preservation. The clearance of woodlands has had a very serious effect on the native birds, and this has been aggravated by the introduction of alien species. Fortunately, several islands have been set aside as inviolable sanctuaries, although even on some of these great harm is being done to the vegetation by imported deer or goats." (Science)