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Dreiser (H. E.). A Histpry of the Birds of Europe, including all the 

 species ifthabiting the Western Palaearctic Region,, with 633 

 beautifully executed hand-coloured plates by Joseph Wolf, J. G. 

 Keulemans and E. Nea/e, also the SUPPLEMENT, With 89 additional 

 coloured plates, together^ vols, roy. 4to„ orig. pts. £60 net. 



1871--% 



The stock of this great and invaluable, as well as most beautiful, work is now nearly exhausted. 



—Do., Supplerhent pnly^ uw'^ 59 additional coloured plates, in 



9 pts., roy, 4to tonly a few copies for sale). £9 9s. net. 1 895-96 

 A Companion Work TO THE '* Birds OF Europe." 



Dresser (H. E.). Eggs of the Birds of Europe, including all the 

 species inhabiting the Western Palaearctic Area, 2 vols, complete 

 in 24 orig. parts, 4tOv with ] 06 Cplbured platei of figs.,, £12 128. ne/. 



Do., the 24 parts, bound in 2 vols, Ato, new half morocco; 



gilt tops, £14 net. 1910 



This work forms a necessary c6»np)eihenf to the Birds of Europe, and is uniform in size with 

 it. Th 106 coloured plates contain accurate figures of nearly 2,000 eggs. The Plates have all 

 been executed by llie three-coloUr photographic process direct from the eggs without the iaterven- 

 tion of an artist, thereby securing the utmost exactness in reproduction of markii^g<,. etc. In 

 addition to the coloured figurfcs of egg* a large number of illustratiptis of the nesfs and egg* <n 

 st7« are given In the text. . - 



Mr. Dresser had the practical assistance in the preparation of the work of the Rev. F. C. R. 

 Jourdain, the late Prof. Newton, and Hpward Saunders, Mr. A. H. Evans, Mr. S. A. Buturlin, 

 and Mr. F. W. Waterhouse. ■' . ,, . , :^ ■; _, , ' ,;,, 



' The author's collection of eggs, as well as hit library, have lately ''been dep.oiited'io 'the Museum 

 /of Manchester University, and these volumes are of especial intere$t -At'foriaiiig a record of so 

 valuable a collection. . ' .''.''''..• 



Dresser (H. E,). A Manual of Palaearctic Birds, in 2 parts, roy. 



8vo, special thin paper edition adapted for travellers and field 



naturalists, 30s. net. 1902—3 



Do., ordinary thick paper edition, 2 pts., roy. 8vo» 25s. ,7»e(. 



This work, especially adapted to meet the requirements of field naturalists atid travellers, i» 

 published in two parts, which may be bouiid in one volume if preferred; it contains nearly 

 1,000 pages of letter prcss| and two plates by the late Mr. Joseph Wolf. Jt treats of the 

 birds found throughout Europe and Asia north of the Himalayas, including Corea and Japan: 

 together more than 1,200 species and subspecies, of each of which the English and scientific 

 - names, are given, with a careful selection of the principal references, the vernacular names in 

 different languages, a concise description of the different stages of plumage, the distribution and 

 habits, as well as a deseription of -the nest and eggs if kjiown. : 



Drpsser (H. E.). A Monograph of the Meropidae, or Family of 

 Bee-eaters, with 34 finely band-coloured plates, imp, 4to, in parts 

 (pub. :^5.5a. rte^), £4 lOs. 1884-^ 



Dresser (H. E.). A Monograph of the Coraciidse, of Family ol 

 the Rollers, With 27 fnelu hand-coloured plates, imp. 4to, cloth 

 (pub. £5 net). £4 10s. 1893 



The above two beautiful monographs of striking and interesting groups of birds should be in every 



ornithological library. 



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