Physical description

A slim square hardcover book with text by Harold J. Pollock and an EP record inside the front cover - Menura the lyrebird Australian Bush Sounds. The cover has a photograph of a Black Swan nesting in open wetlands. Inside the left front cover is a pocket with an EP record by The book has explanations of the sounds recorded as well as black and white photographs of the creatures featured. p.20.

Publication type

non-fiction

Summary

A book and recording of Australian Bush Sounds from the Victorian border to Cape York. It is a follow-up to the previously very successful record of Australian Bird songs by Carl and Lise Weismann in 1957 - 58. All were recorded in their natural surroundings but for the Dingoes which they had to insert the howls of a group in a faunal reserve. The lyrebird was drawn from and excellent sequence by Harold Pollock. The book describes the Sound and Communication in Animals and Insect Sounds.