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Inscribed in black ink on front endpaper: ‘To Bob and Pat Menzies with affectionate regards from Malcolm MacDonald 1950.’

Includes a typed letter from the author on letterhead of the Commissioner-General for the U.K. in South-East Asia, dated 17 September 1950, presenting the book and referring to a recent visit by Menzies to Bukit Serene.

In 1950, when Malcolm MacDonald met Menzies, he was the Commissioner-General for the United Kingdom in South-East Asia. MacDonald gifted the book as a token of his appreciation for Menzies’s visit to Bukit Serene corresponding with the Malayan Emergency to which Menzies provided RAAF forces. MacDonald wrote this book while stationed in Ottawa where the birds of Brewery Creek can be found. His admiration for the birds led to the making of this beautiful collection of bird illustrations and observations.