Publisher: A. A. Balkema (1967)
ISBN: N/A
Condition: Good. The dust jacket has some rubbing, light staining, edgewear, small chips to the edges, and two larger open tears to the rear. Light edgewear to boards, and small bumps to the bottom edge of front board. Light chipping to tail of spine. Previous owner's signature and previous bookseller's stamp to front free endpaper. Some highlighting to textbox of colour plate no. 7. Light tracing with a pencil over some of the plates, confined to outlines of birds. Record has some scratches. Text is clean, and copy is well bound.
Binding: Hardcover with DJ
Pages: 351
Dimensions: 24.8 x 18.8 x 2.7cm
SKU: IZa2739
Weight: 1.05kg
Price: R525.00
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by C. J. Skead  
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Original hardcover binding with gilt lettering to spine, and publisher's device to front board in gilt inlay. With dust jcket. Comes with a 45rpm record in sleeve at the rear of book with recordings of 'Sunbird Calls and Songs'. With 10 colour plates, 12 monochrome plates, and 25 maps, collated and complete.

Cuthbert John Skead, also known as "C. J. Skead", "Jack Skead" or "Skeado" (30 April 1912 – 28 May 2006), was a South African ornithologist, historian and botanist. It was during his farming career that he started observing birds in the vicinity which led to his first publication appearing in the journal 'Ostrich' in 1943. In 1949, Skead took up the position of Director at the Amathole Museum. He also served as a research officer for the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, a research institute associated with the University of Cape Town from 1961 to 1966, after which he returned to the museum where he remained until his retirement in 1972. Skead contributed to the scholarly knowledge through producing more than 100 journal articles and books, including Sunbirds of South Africa, Canaries, seedeaters and buntings, and Historical Incidence of the Larger Mammals.

(wikipedia.com)