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Original hardcover binding with gilt lettering to spine, and publisher's device to front board in gilt inlay. With dust jcket. Comes with a 45rpm record in sleeve at the rear of book with recordings of 'Sunbird Calls and Songs'. With 10 colour plates, 12 monochrome plates, and 25 maps, collated and complete.
Cuthbert John Skead, also known as "C. J. Skead", "Jack Skead" or "Skeado" (30 April 1912 28 May 2006), was a South African ornithologist, historian and botanist. It was during his farming career that he started observing birds in the vicinity which led to his first publication appearing in the journal 'Ostrich' in 1943. In 1949, Skead took up the position of Director at the Amathole Museum. He also served as a research officer for the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, a research institute associated with the University of Cape Town from 1961 to 1966, after which he returned to the museum where he remained until his retirement in 1972. Skead contributed to the scholarly knowledge through producing more than 100 journal articles and books, including Sunbirds of South Africa, Canaries, seedeaters and buntings, and Historical Incidence of the Larger Mammals.
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