British Birds, Volume 56 (1963) : Twelve Monthly Issues plus a Ringing Supplement for 1963 and Comprehensive Index
All 12 issues of British Birds - a monthly illustrated journal - for 1963 together with a supplement on ringing for 1963 and a general index, which together form a the complete Volume 56 of British Birds. All issues uniform in pale blue card covers, stapled, and each around, consecutively numbered pages throughout, 562pp in all. Illustrated with monochrome plate. Covers have gentle edge wear, a few marks and a little oxidization around the staples; and one is quite discoloured on the cover, and each is internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Includes essays on The Moult Migration of the Shelduck, the Black-winged Kite in Portugal, The Pheasant in Wales, Albinism and Melanism in British Birds, The Red-rumped Swallow, The Crane, The Feeding Ecology of the Woodpigeon, The Importance of Population of Studies; Population Changes in Surrey Oakwood; Birds of the Danube, the Spread of the Eider in Great Britain, Larger Pipets, Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits etc, together with shorter news items, reviews, reports etc and a interesting related contemporary adverts. 12mo.