A BIRD WATCHER'S NOTE BOOK. STUDIES OF WOODCOCK, SNIPE AND OTHER BIRDS. By J.W. Seigne.

1930 1st edition. Large 8vo (150 x 220mm). Ppxii,226. Colour frontispiece & b/w drawings by Philip Rickman, photographs. Dark green cloth, vignette & spine title in gilt.

"About eight years ago I gave up shooting on my small property in County Kilkenny and made it a sanctuary, chiefly in order to study... the woodcock. I must admit that at first I was often sorely tempted when I flushed a woodcock on a winter's day and watched it flitting away... but the pleasure and interest I now get out of the place more than compensate me for the small amount of sport it yielded in the past." Includes a lengthy chapter on "Vermin: a shooting man's point of view" by Major Maurice Portal, D.S.O.