BIRD DISPLAY AND BEHAVIOUR: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF BIRD PSYCHOLOGY. By Edward Armstrong.

(1942) 1947 2nd edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp431. Colour photograph frontispiece, b/w photograph plates, b/w line illustrations. Gilt seabird courtship motif to burnt-orange cloth, spine titled in gilt.

This is "a revised and enlarged edition of Bird Display: An Introduction to The Study of Bird Psychology (1942)." "In this study, Mr. Armstrong, realising the importance of documented records, has brought together the widely scattered results of much observation and research in order to provide a body of knowledge upon which general conclusions in regard to bird behaviour and psychology may be based. [He] bases all his deductions on his own or other naturalists' first-hand observations and indicates interesting parallels between the behaviour of birds and other creatures - including man." Well worth a read.