NATURE NOTES OF A HIGHLAND GAMEKEEPER. By Dugald Macintyre.

1960 1st edition (later re-issue). 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp165. B/w photograph plates. Blue boards, upper board titled in gilt, spine untitled.

This copy appears to be a re-issue using the same sheets as the first edition. The dust-wrappers on all copies of this issue, bound in blue cloth, were trimmed slightly shorter than the book itself". Famous gamekeeper, sportsman, and perhaps most important of all, a first-rate naturalist, Dugald Macintyre during his lifetime made many original discoveries while observing the habits of birds and beasts in the wilds of the Highlands". Sporting stories, natural history, poaching and poachers, as well as training a peregrine falcon "who regularly called to him from mid-air on the way home". Chapters include: Tales of a great-grandfather; The first gamekeepers; Old shooting-tennants and their guests; Hard times for deer and hares; Woodcock and chick carrying; Grouse economics; Wild fowling in a storm; The humours of poacher-catching; The mind of a dog; Flights by tame and wild falcons; New discoveries and observations.