Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania.

Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914.
Quarto, four volumes, 1580 pp. 25 egg plates, uncoloured vignettes by Neville Cayley senior, photographs by the author and H. Barnes. Near contemporary half black calf, all edges speckled, slight wear otherwise an excellent set.

Alfred John North (1855-1917) was one of the greatest of all Australian ornithologists and a founding member in 1880 of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. He was appointed Assistant Curator of Birds at the Australian Museum, under E. P. Ramsay, in 1891, a position he held until his death in 1917. His book is one of the great classics of ornithological literature, still useful, and a cornerstone of any collection of Australian natural history.

Whittell p. 552-563 Wood p. 494-495; Zimmer 476-478.