Description

Blanford Press [Published Date: 1972]. Hardcover, 262 pp. Third edition, 1972. Good / Missing dust jacket. Brown textured boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked with occasional light spotting and soiling. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Includes 66 pages of full color photo reproductions of birds. This volume focuses on the care in Cage and Avery. Contents include: Accommodation; Furnishing of Cage and Aviary; Suitable Shrubs and other Plants; Winter Accommodation; Obtaining the Birds; Mixed Collections; Foods; Feeding and Hand-rearing young birds; Breeding in cages or Aviaries; Colour mutations and hybridizing; Sickness and treatment; Descriptions and care of Birds; App: The Zebra Finch and its mutations; Index of English names; Index of Latin names