Lately published, 



EXOTIC ORNITHOLOGY. 



BY 



PHILIP LUTLEr SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., &c., 



AND 



OSBERT SALVIN, M.A., F.Z.S., &c. 



Complete in 13 parts, imperial 4to, £13 13s. ; large paper, royal folio, 

 £26 26s. 1866-69. 



Under this title has been completed a series of 100 COLOURED 

 LITHOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS of NEW or hitherto UN- 

 FIGURED BIRDS, to form a SUPPLEMENT to Buffon's Planches 

 Enluminees, Paris, 1770-86 ; to Temminck's Planches Colorizes, 5 vols., 

 Paris, 1838 ; and to Des Murs's Iconogi-aphie Omitholooique, Paris, 

 1845-49. 



Although it was originally intended by the Authors that the 

 for illustration in this work should be selected from the many new and 

 remarkable ornithic forms which the exertions of modem collectors have 

 recently brought to light in nearly every part of the world's surface, par- 

 ticularly within the tropics, it was found, as the work progTessed, that it 

 would be more convenient in this first series to restrict it to the illustra- 

 tion of the birds of the neotropical region, i. e. America south of the 

 United States. 



This series, then, contains illustrations of American Birds only, a few 

 of them being taken from the interesting and peculiar forms inhabiting 

 the West-India Islands ; a greater number represent birds of Central 

 America, a district personally explored by one of the Authors ; the re- 

 mainder are figures of species belonging to South America proper. 



The species illustrated are 104 in number, belonging to 51 genera. To 

 the final illustration in each genus is appended, in almost every case, a 

 sytematic list of aU the other American members of the same genus Imown 

 to the Authors ; and the geographical distribution, compiled from every 

 available authentic source, has been added to each species mentioned in 

 the work. 



The majority of the specimens from which the drawings have been 

 taken are to be found in the private collections of the authors ; but the 

 Museums of Berlin, Paiis, and Neuchatel, and in England the British 

 Museum, the Norfolk and Norwich Museima, and the Derby Museum of 

 Liverpool have all kindly lent specimens (many of them types) for illus - 

 tration, and thus added materially to the value of the drawings in a 

 scientific point of view. 



The first series of this work contains One Hundred Plates. Each 

 part contains eight coloured plates and tioo sheets of letterpress. The thir- 

 teenth part contains the last four plates, and the Title and Index to the 

 volume. 



Only One Hundred and Fifty copies of the work, in imperial 4to, 

 have been printed. 



Fifteen copies have been printed on LARGE PAPER, royal folio, 

 to match the Large-Paper issues of Temminck and Des Murs. 



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