AVIFAUNA 



SOUTH-AVESTERN AFRICA. 



BY 



CHARLES J. ANDERSSON, 



AUTHOR OF 

 ' LAKE NGAMI,' THE ' OKAVANGO EIVER,' &e. &C. 



ITndeb the above title it is proposed to publish, in three volumes, Royal 8vo 

 (handsomely bound in cloth, and with a sketch-map of the various countries 

 treated of), an accurate description of all the Birds met with by the Author 

 during his travels and researches ; and otherwise observed between the Orange 

 River, Cunene, Okavango, Teouge, and the Lake Ngami country for the last 

 fifteen years. 



This great work will be illustrated by upwards of 450 Plates in tinted 

 lithogi-aphy, or, if siifBcient public support be guaranteed, in chromo-litho- 

 graphy, after drawings by Messrs. Wolf and Baines, and executed under the 

 Author's supei-A'ision. As many of these drawings have been made as soon 

 as possible after death, they wiU furnish a series of illustrations of umivalled in- 

 terest and value to every lover of natiire. There will be in addition about 900 

 pages of letterpress, concerning the historj^, habits, nidification, &c. of close upon 

 500 birds ; accompanied by accurate portraits of the plants, trees, and general 

 aspect of the counti-y to which these birds are more or less indigenous, thus 

 showing at a glance each creature and its habitat. 



At a cost of £3000, Messrs. Day & Son, the eminent lithogi-aphers, have 

 agreed to publish this work in their best style. To be secured, for this outlay 

 they require a guarantee of 500 subscribers at 5 g-uineas each ; and it therefore 

 remains for the public to decide whether, for a comparatively moderate sum, they 

 will secure for themselves, or not, a trustworthy record of the many very inter- 

 esting new and beautiful fomis of the feathered creation peculiar to South-western 

 Africa. 



As the Author cannot hope to reap any pecuniary benefit from the sale of this 

 work, he appeals confidently to the public for support and encouragement in his 

 arduous undertaking, not only on the ground of its general interest to the man 

 of science, the student, and the lover of the picturesque, but also on the plea of 

 its being the crowning work of one who has shattered his health and damaged 

 his fortime while in hot pm'suit of materials which it has cost him many years 

 of toil and hardship to coUect ; and who is, therefore, loth to see the labour of a 

 life wasted for want of the means to utilize its products. 



A single Subscription will be Five Gumeas. 



Subscribers' names wiU be received by Mr. Maskew at the Public Library, 

 Capetown, and also by the Editor of ' The Ibis,' who will forward them to 

 the Author. 



