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AN ENTIRELY NEW AND COMPREHENSIVE WORK 



THE 



British Bird Book 



lUnstrated by Two Hundred Drawings in Coloor of British Birds and their Egrgs and 

 numerous Photographs of their nests. It will give careful descriptions of the Birds 

 and a more complete account of their habits than has ever yet been attempted. 



Editor F. B. KIRK.MAN, B.A. Oxon. 



Contributors..^ J. L. Bonhote, M.A., William Farrcn, F. C. R. Jourdain, M.A. 

 Oxon, W. P. Pycraft, Edmund Sclous, Miss E. L. Turner. 



Artists ... Miss W. Austen, G. E, Collins, H. Gronvold, G. E. Lodge, 



A. W. Seaby. 



Photographers Dr. F. E. Daniel, Wm. Farren, Riley Fortune, E. L. Turner' 

 C. Reid, Seton Gordon, and others. 



The primary object of The British Bird Book is to bring together from every source, 

 foreign and native, ail the available information of any value on the Habits of British 

 Birds, especially such as has been accumulated during the last quarter of a century — 

 that is, since the issue of the last important British work on the subject, the revised 

 edition of Yarrell. The British Bird Book will appeal alike to the general reader and 

 the expert. Besides giving a more complete account of the habits of our birds than has 

 ever yet been attempted, it will contain careful descriptions of the species, their nests 

 and eggs, as well as concise and up-to-date information on their geographical 

 distribution, migrations, classification, and chapters on bird-watching and photography. 

 It will contain 200 coloured drawings of birds and eggs, done by the best artists 

 of the day. These will represent not the conventional bird on the conventional 

 twig of the older books, but will seek to combine the realism of the photograph 

 with the added advantage of colour and artistic treatment 



THE BRITISH BIRD BOOK will be issued 

 in 12 Sections at los. 6d. net per Section 



There is also an Edition de Lnxe of 350 copies signed and numbered at xss. per Section 

 net. The plates in this Edition are the first impressions from the original blocks, printed 



on a specially prepared paper, mounted on Japanese Vellum. 



pure rag paper. 



The text is printed on a 



T. C. & E. C. JACK, 16, Henrietta Street, W.C, and Edinburgh. 



