Wild Life in the West Highlands

Description:

First edition. Illustrated by A. Scott Rankin. Chapters 8-15 (pp. 79-188) are on birds, including, A Vanishing Bird (the White-tailed Eagle); Bird-Life in a West Highland Parish; The Recent Increase and Dispersal of some Birds in Scotland, etc. Also chapters on The Wolf in Scotland; The Wild Cat; The Beaver and Scottish Tradition; The Badger; Species or Varieties in our Salmonidae; Memories of a River: The Deveron, etc. Appendices on The Elephang at Home, and, The Story of the Kea.

Mullens & Swann p. 11.

Condition

8vo, orig. cloth, gt title to spine. Endpapers browned. Page edges uncut. Good.