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ORNITHOLOGY.
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GAME BIRDS AND WATER-FOWL OF THE UNITED STATES, 20 fine coloured plates, equal to drawings, each measuring 22 by 28 inches, mounted on card-boards. List of plates: The American Snipe, the Green-winged Teal, the Woodcock, the Mallard Duck, the American Quail, the Black Duck, the Ruffed Grouse, the Blue-Bill Duck, the Prairie Chicken, the Red-head Duck, the Canada Grouse, the Wood Duck, the Californian Valley Quail, the Buffle-headed Duck, the Upland Plover, the Golden-eye Duck or Whistler, the Californian Mountain Quail, the Widgeon, the Canvas-back Duck, the Brant; one volume, atlas folio, half-morocco, gilt edges, 1878 (pub. £8), £4 17s. 6d.

HEWITSON (W. C.) Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, with descriptions of their nests and nidifications, 3rd edition, 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, 1856 (pub. £4 14s. 6d.), £4 4s.

MITCHELL (F. S.) The Birds of Lancashire, 242 pp., with map of the County, 2 coloured plates, 9 plain, and 3 vignettes by J. G. Keulemans, etc., crown 8vo, cloth, 1885, 7s. 6d.

The author is member of the British Ornithologist's Union. A work of great labour and research. Favourably reviewed in Nature, July, 1885.

MORRIS (F. O.) History of British Birds, with 350 coloured plates, 8 vols., crown 8vo, cloth, 1862, £2 2s.

MORRIS (F. O.) Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, new edition, enlarged, 233 coloured plates, 3 vols., super-royal 8vo, cloth, 1871 (pub. £3 3s.), £2.

RAMON DE LA SAGRA (D.) Historia Fisica Politica y Naturel de la Isla de Cuba, AVES por Mr. Alcides D'Orbigny, with 33 fine coloured plates of Birds and their Eggs, folio, half-bound, with the text in French, 8vo, Paris, 1839, £3 7s. 6d.

SAMUELS (Edward A.) Our Northern and Eastern Birds, containing Descriptions of the Birds of the Northern and