New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1941. Octavo, folding map, binder's cloth. "To Major H. M. Whittell with kind regards E. Mayr". Bookplaste of Whittell.

Ernst Walter Mayr (1904- 2005) was arguably the greatest evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century. He was keenly interested in bird evolution on islands as examples of the processes driving evolution in populations. He was very much a New Guinea specialist.