PUBLISHERS’ ADVERTISEMENT. 

Fiowers have been called “the poetry of na- 
ture,” a compliment which might be applied, with 
even more justice, to birds; which not only vie 
with the tulip and the rose in the splendour and 
beauty of their colours, but in their sprightly and 
joyous movements, their graceful forms, and, more 
than all, in the variety and sweetness of their mel- 
ody, may be said to imbody the very soul of poe- 
try. It must be highly pleasing, therefore, and no 
less instructive, to study the character and habits 
of this most interesting portion of “animated na- 
ture.” 
The volume here offered to the public will be 
found to contain many charming, and scarcely less 
wonderful things, in relation to the feathered tribes ; 
and the reader will discover that the great Creator 
has been no less liberal in endowing them with 
the instincts essential to their individual preser- 
vation and happiness, than with the qualities which 
make them more directly the objects of our ad. 
miration and delight. 
