FOREIGN BIRDS FOR BEGINNERS. By D.H.S. Risdon. Bird Keepers Library.

# (1953) 1965 revised impression of 8th edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp140. Colour frontispiece, 56 full colour paintings of birds, b/w illustrations. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

# "The great value of this book... lies in the fact that the mass of information it contains is the result of the author's extensive, first-hand, practical experience of the numerous species about which he writes. A most valuable feature of this work... is the manner in which the birds have been grouped in collections which may safely be asociated together in the same aviary." Chapters include: Housing; Feeding; Breeding; General Management; Diseases, parasites and accidents; Small finches, mannikins, waxbills, doves and quails; Weavers, whydahs and large finches; Cardinals and birds of similar size; Parrakeets and lovebirds; Some hardy softbills.