An Introduction to Bird Behaviour

SUMPTUOUS MONOGRAPH ON BIRD BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE TO TERRITORY--BEAUTIFUL PLATES. 12 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, xii, 136 pp, frontis and 10 lithographic plates on heavy stock with tissue guards by George E. Lodge, and 2 full page plans of territorial areas. Near fine in very good minus faded jacket with chipped edges in protective mylar cover. HENRY ELIOT HOWARD (1873 26 December 1940) was an English amateur ornithologist, noted for being one of the first to describe territoriality behaviours in birds in a detailed manner. He showed from his earliest childhood an intense love of natural history. It was not until 1914 that his first work, British Warblers, illustrated by Henrik Grnvold, was fully published, having been issued in parts since 1907. Continually working on the theory of territory, he published Territory in Bird Life, illustrated by George Edward Lodge and Henrik Grnvold, in 1920 (a reissue in 1948 had an introduction by Julian Huxley and James Fisher), followed by An Introduction to the Study of Bird Behaviour, Nature of a Bird's World and lastly A Waterhen's Worlds, in 1940. GEORGE EDWARD LODGE (1860 1954) was a British illustrator of birds and an authority on falconry. He was educated at home, and became an accomplished taxidermist. He travelled abroad in search of birds and sport, visiting Norway, Sweden, the West Indies and the United States. One of the earliest works for which he made illustrations was Lord Lilford's Birds of Northamptonshire, in conjunction with Archibald Thorburn, whose skill as a bird-artist Lodge greatly admired. This admiration was returned as in the early 1910s Thorburn was approached by a representative of the New Zealand Government regarding a commission to provide plates for a proposed book of New Zealand native birds. Thorburn recommended Lodge for the commission and in 1913 Lodge began work. He studied bird skin specimens from a number of different collections in Britain including the Natural History Museum and eventually supplied 90 plates to the Wildlife Service of the Department of Internal Affairs of New Zealand. Lodge was also an expert at woodcuts, in which craft he contributed to books by Henry Seebohm and Badminton Library. His illustrations appeared in Beebe's Monograph of the Pheasants and Eliot Howard's Introduction to Bird Behaviour (1929) (offered here).

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Year: 1929

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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