A 



HAN1)15()()K 



TO THE 



BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, 



BY 



JOHN GOULD, F.ll.S., &c. 



This day is published, Vol. I. of the above work, in royal octavo, 

 containing 630 pages, price £1 5s. ; and on the 2nd of December will 

 be issued the second and concluding volume, at the same price. 



Extmct from Preface, vol. i. 

 " Nearly twenty years have elapsed since my folio work on the 

 Birds of Austi'alia was completed. During that period many new 

 species have been discovered, and much additional information 

 acquired respecting those comprised therein ; it therefore appeared 

 to me that a careful resume of the entire subject " [in an octavo 

 form] " would be acceptable to the possessors of the former edition, 

 as well as to the many persons in Australia who are now turning 

 their attention to the ornithology of the country in which they are 

 resident. Indeed I have been assured that such a work is greatly 

 needed to enable the explorer during his joumeyings, or the student 

 in his quiet home, to identify the species that may come under his 

 notice, and as a means by which the curators of the museums now 

 established in the various colonies may arrange and name the collec- 

 tions entrusted to their charge." 



PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, 

 AT 26 CHARLOTTE STREET, BEDFORD SQUARE, W.C. 



September \st, 1865. 



