First edition. Chapters on natural history of each bird and the plates illustrating the book drawn from the British Bird Book. Contributions from: Horace G. Hutchinson, W.P. Pycraft, F.C.R. Jourdain, A.L. Thomson, the Hon. Douglas Cairns, John H. Wyatt, Max Baker, W.J. Malden, Major Hugh B.C. Pollard. Illustrations by A.W. Seaby, G.E. Lodge, H. Gronvold, G.E. Collins and Winifred Austen