THE WRENS AND WARBLERS OF AUSTRALIA. The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. By Graham Pizzey.

1982 1st edition. Large 4to (219 x 2198mm). Ppxiii,343. Colour photographs, b/w line illustrations, distribution maps, bibliography. White titles to black boards, spine titled in white.

This "is a major new work covering the eighty-five species generally referred to as wrens and warblers." "The assembly of birds called 'wrens and warblers' endeared themselves to the early settlers. With a nostalgia for home they called many of the birds they saw 'warbler' or 'wren', although scientifically inappropriate, because of their resemblance to the birds of the Old World. chapters include: Fairy wrens; Emu wrens; Grass wrens; Field wrens; Heath wrens; Scrub wrens; Fairy warblers; Whitefaces; Thornbills; Some aberrant warblers; Old World warblers; Chats. 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 first volume in the ornithological volumes of The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife.