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Seller's Description:
Very Good. 8vo. Signed by Author 155pp, bw ills. Pictorial card. Author's stamp on copyright page, slight foxing. SIGNED by author on front blank. The book is mainly about the times when the Pastures Protection Boards placed bonuses (bounties) on the ears and scalps of supposed noxious animals-dingoes, foxes, hares, plus kangaroo rats, tiger and native cats, and sometimes wallabies and kangaroos. Also at times rabbits. Bonus also paid for the heads and beaks of crows and heads, beaks and talons of wedge tail eagles and other hawks. All except the crow, fox and rabbit are now considered endangered species. The stories, songs and poems tell of the professional, full time and part time hunters, workers and unemployed who benefited by the bonuses, and the methods by which the animals were shot, trapped or poisoned. Particularly the art of enticing dingoes by imitating their howl-and the revival and conducting of dingo howling contests amongst dingo hunters 'today'.
