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Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania.
Alfred J. North.
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, four volumes, 25 egg plates, uncoloured vignettes by Neville Cayley senior, photographs by the author and H. Barnes. Contemporary green binder's cloth with later red labels, a very good set.
Alfred John North (1855-1917) was one of the greatest of all Australian ornithologists and a founding member in 1880 of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. He was appointed Assistant Curator of Birds at the Australian Museum, under E. P. Ramsay, in 1891, a position he held until his death in 1917. His book is one of the great classics of ornithological literature, still useful, and a cornerstone of any collection of Australian natural history.
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