Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary

Finches

by P. M. Soderberg

drawings by Sheila Dorrell

Cassell and Co., 1956, [First Edition], illustrated colour plates, black and white illustrations, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ details stamped on front endpaper; clipped dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping and chipping to edges and corners, a little discoloration (see photographs)

“This book, which covers a group loosely termed ‘finches’, may be open to the criticism that some of the species chosen seem to have been selected on a more or less arbitrary basis.  Other readers may expect to find here birds which are quite common but which have not found a place among the species described.
The word ‘finch’ has a very definite scientific connotation, but that is rarely the concern of the aviculturist, for he is much more influenced by popular than by scientific considerations.”