THE SEABIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. By Terence R. Lindsey.

1986 1st edition. Large 4to (219 x 2198mm). Ppxvi,518. Colour photographs, b/w line illustrations, distribution maps, bibliography. White titles to black boards, spine titled in white.

This "is a major new new work covering the ninety species of birds that inhabit the seas around Australia". It "provides an intimate glimpse of some of the least well-known yet most fascinating of Australia's birds." Penguins, albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters, storm petrels, diving petrels, pelicans, gannets and boobies, darters, cormorants, frigatebirds, tropic birds. Each volume of this series includes a detailed section on the eggs of the species under examination. The series, although wholely new in all aspects of its content, is modelled on Gould's Birds of Australia. "(This book) is both a serious reference book and a magnificent production, designed to give pleasure to a wide audience". This is the third volume in the ornithological volumes of The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife.