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sible, all other information necessary to a complete summary or 

 manual of North-American ornithology. No other work extant 

 gives a complete ornithology of our countiy; and it has been 

 the especial object of the authors and publishers to adapt it to 

 the wants of the student ^nd lover of nature, and to present in 

 a condensed form, and at a price within the reach of all, a re- 

 liable text-book in this favourite department of natural history. 

 Extended bibliographical notices, embracing full references to 

 very nearly all authors on American ornithology, have been 

 added, and will be found to be of high interest to the student 

 and naturalist. 



"The Atlas, embracing as it does 1 00 plates of birds not figured 

 by Audubon, will be found indispensable to the possessor of 

 that distinguished author's ' Birds of America,' completing it 

 to the present time. 



" As stated in the preface, the descriptions and figures in the 

 present work have been taken almost entirely from specimens 

 in the Smithsonian Institution. To the Secretary of the Insti- 

 tution the publishers are under many obligations for facilities 

 in the preparation of this much-extended and greatly improved 

 edition." 



Parts of the Pacific Railway Reports, which relate to the 

 natural condition and products of the country traversed near the 

 47th and 49th parallels of latitude, have likewise been collected 

 together in a separate form, and form a quarto volume, under 

 the title of 'The Natural History of Washington Territory */ 

 Full details are given about the birds of this country, the por- 

 tion relating to the Land-birds being from the pen of Dr. J. G. 

 Cooper, and that relating to the Water-birds having been com- 

 piled by Dr. G. Suckley, to whose courtesy we stand indebted for 

 a copy of this interesting work. 



* 'The Natural Sistory of Washington Territory, with much relating to 

 Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California. By J. G. Cooper, 

 M.D., and Dr. G. Suckley, U.S.A.' New York : Bailliere Brothers, 1859. 

 1 vol. 4to. 



