A HISTORY OF THE GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND ADJACENT STATES... By Edward Howe Forbush.

1912 1st edition. 4to (177 x 252mm). Ppxviii,622. Illustrated with drawings by W.I. Beecroft and the author and photographs by Herbert K. Job and others. Dark green cloth, blind-ruled border to upper board, spine titled in gilt.

Full title:- "A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States: Including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence. By Edward Howe Forbush, State Ornithologist of Massachusetts. Illustrated with drawings by W.I. Beecroft and the author and photographs by Herbert K. Job and others".