Natal birds (Including the species belonging to Natal and the eastern districts of the Cape Colony

The first specialised book on birds of the region. Original blue cloth. Pp. v,215, colour frontispiece. This book belonged to Henry Tryon, with his signature on the front paste-down & a neat inscription on title-page, concerning his brother Walter Tryon, who is mentioned on page 99 of this book, with reference to his observations of a bird in Ifafa. Henry Tryon surmises that Walter's "tragic death" must be the explanation for no other of his observations being published in the book. Spine slightly frayed at head & foot, slightly marked, as is the front cover, end-papers browned, frontispiece & title-page loose. But a rather nice copy, with a Sawyers invoice dated 1970 for 27 pounds loosely inserted