Abridged edition. Detailed illustrations throughout. The standard reference on ornithology in Australia. pp. 325 illusts #R/0418/0520/0920 What Bird Is That? A Guide to the Birds of Australia is a book first published in 1931 by Angus & Robertson in Sydney. Authored and illustrated by Neville William Cayley, it was Australia’s first fully illustrated national field guide to birds, a function it served alone for nearly 40 years. In 1960 it was rated the all-time best seller in Australian natural history. NOTE: This is the abridged edition. (Name on prelim.)