184 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 69. 



title, ii entered ac. act Congress 1839 by Thomas M. Brewer. 

 [Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry], iii-iv 

 advertisement by Brewer, v-viii contents, 1-G81 Wilson's American 

 Ornithology following the original arrangement, GS2-74G Synopsis 

 of the Birds of North America, Plates uncolored, unnumbered, 

 greatly reduced, but keeping the original grouping, usually three 

 of the original in one, constituting figures numbered consecutively, 

 figg. 31G-31S, and £22 are wood cuts iu text. 



This, the original Brewer edition, is rather scarce and Is quoted 

 at from $3 to $10. 



(m) Wilson's I American Ornithology, | with | Notes by 

 Jardine ; | to which is added | A Synopsis of American Birds, | 

 includin.<j those described | by Bonaparte, Audubon, Nuttall, 

 and I Richardson: | By T. M. Brewer | — | New York: | H. S. 

 Samuels, No. 8 Park Place, MDCCCLTI. 8 vo. 



This is a cheaper edition of the 1840 issue. 



Dr. Faxon informs me that the various issues of Brewer were 

 printed from the same plates which passed into the hands of dif- 

 ferent publishers, thus giving the different imprints. 



(n) There is also an 1853 edition from the same source, in 1 vol. 

 with colored frontispiece, now offered at $3.75-$5 ; and, according to 

 trade lists, iu 2 vols, with two colored, iu addition to the usual 

 plain plates, quoted at $4. 



(o) 1854, New York, Charles L. Cornish ed., in 1 vol. at $5.25, 

 and 2 vols, with two colored and the numerous uncolored plates at 

 $9. 



(p) "The American Ornithology, by Alexander Wilson, with a 

 life of the Author by George Ord, and Numerous Additions from 

 Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, Richardson, and Jardine, by T. M. 

 Brewer. 2 vols. Svo, and plates in 1 vol. r. 4 to, Phila. 1856." Gf. 

 AlUbone's Grit. Diet, of Etig. Lit. Vol. Ill, 189S, p. 2766. Not seen. 

 If it exists, the plates may have been from the Ord edition, 

 The Philadelphia ed., seldom quoted and readily briugs $G.50 with- 

 out being catalogued, according to Mr. Samuel N. Rhoads. 



(q) Wilson and Bonaparte. | — | American Ornithology;} 

 or, I The Natural History | of the | Birds of the United States 

 ] Illustrated with Plates | engraved and colored from original 

 drawings from nature. | By | Alexander Wilson | and ] Charles 

 Lucian Bonaparte. | with a Sketch of the Life of Wilson, | By 

 George Ord, F. L. S., | and I A classification of the genera and 

 species of American Birds, | By Spencer F. Baird, | of the 



