Illustrated by Ten Coloured and Eight Tinted Plates, royal 8vo, price £1 lis. 6d., 

 Part I. (containing Accipitres) of 



OOTHECA WOLLEYANA: 



AN ILLUSTEATED AND DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



or THE COLLECTION OF BIEDS' EGGS FORMED BY 



THE LATE JOHN WOLLEY, Jtjn., M.A., F.Z.S. 



Edited from the original notes 



By ALFRED NEWTON, M.A., F.L.S. 



*^* Part II. is in jJi'eparatian, 



Ornithological Works in Preparation. 

 EXOTIC OUNITHOLOGY. 



BY 



PfflLLP LUTLEY SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., etc., 



AND 



OSBERT SALVIN, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S,, etc. 



Under this title it is proposed very shortly to commence the issue of a series of 

 COLOUKED lithographic illustrations of New or hitherto Unfigured Birds. 



To the description of each species figured the authors will endeavour to add a 

 complete list of the other known species of the Genus, so that the letterpress will 

 consist of a series of monographic essays. 



The First Series of this work will contain One Hundred Plates. It will be 

 published in Twelve Parts, at intervals of about two months. Each Part will con- 

 tain etffht coloured plates and two sheets of letterpress. A Thirteenth Part will 

 contain the fovir last plates and the Title and Index to the Volume. 



The price of each Part in Imperial 4to will be £1 Is., to be paid for as the work 

 comes out. Only tioo hmdrecl copies of the work in Imperial 4to wiU be prepared. 

 Twenty-Jive copies will be printed on Large Paper to match the Large Paper 

 Issues of Temminck and Des Murs. The subscription price of these copies will 

 be, each Part £2 2s. 



Intending Subscribers are requested to apply to the Publisher, Mr. B. Quaritch, 

 15 Piccadilly, London, W. 



THE BIRDS OE SOUTH AEUICA. 



A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF ALL THE KNOWN SPECIES 



OCCURRING SOUTH OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH PARALLEL 



OF LATITUDE. 



EDGAR LEOPOLD LAYARD, F.Z.S., 



curator of the south AFRICAN MUSEUM, ETC. 



The study of the Birds of Southern Africa is beset with very great difficulty. 

 No work gives even a bare catalogue of their names ; and the descriptions of the 

 various species inhabiting the Cape Colony are scattered through many different 

 publications, some so expensive as to be beyond the reach of ordinary collectors, 

 while others are journals extending over a long series of years. 



In size the 'Birds of South Africa' will be similar to Mr. Trimen's ' HJiopalo- 

 cera Africcc AmtraUs,' so as to form with it and contemplated works on the 

 Reptilia, Sec, a complete South-African Fauna. 



