Animal Locomotion (World Naturalist)

Pp. xi, 479, 8 black-and-white photo-plates, numerous line drawings and graphs. Publisher's forest green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. This is the first American edition. Describes and details the locomotion of all vertebrates - fish, tetrapods, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. There is also a section on locomotion in invertebrates. In the 'World Naturalist' series.