^ few opinions expressed by Subscribers on Parts I. and II. 



•• Mr. Potniijtg's egg-pictures are b}- far the best since Hewitson." — Lord Lilfoed (President of the 

 liritish Ornithologists' Union). 



" Mr. Poynting's plates are, without exception, the very best of any that have hitherto been 

 published here or on the Continent on oology, and I most sincerely wish him success, and trust that 

 he may continue the work until he has made it a complete work on British Oology." — H. E. Dressek 

 (.Vuthor of the ' Birds of Europe,' &c., &c.). 



"Can appreciate the great success in these beautiful figures." — (Rev.) Mdrrat A. Mathew (part 

 Author of the ' Birds of Devon ' and Author of the ' Birds of Pembrokeshire '). 



" Out and out the finest work I ever hoped to see ; it is simply perfect. I never saw so fine 

 an average of work in my life." — H. Bendelack Hewetson (F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.R.C.S., President of the 

 Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association). 



" I am charmed with what you sent me this morning ; the accuracy, detail, and elaborate finish 

 of tliis latest addition to British Oology places it beyond the pale of even a breath of adverse 

 criticism." — H. S. Davejjpokt. 



" I think the plates are splendid."^F. H. Barclay. 



" The finest illustrations of eggs I have yet seen." — A. Macomb Chance. 



" Poynting's book is very lovely. These illustrations are the best — out and out — that have appeared 

 as part of a series." — J. A. Hakvie-Brown (part Author of ' The Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland ' Series). 



" Having become a subscriber to your most beautiful book of eggs of the Llmicolce, I venture 

 to write and urge you to continue your splendid drawings of eggs and to take in the whole of the 



British Birds' eggs Looking at your drawings gives me, I think, as much pleasure as having 



the eggs before me '" — Arthur Newall. 



'-or,-' 



" I think the illustrations of the eggs of the Limicolip are the best I have seen of the kind, 

 and could not be surpassed." — H. Jones (Major). 



'■I must write and very heartily congratulate you on the admirable plates in your book on the 



eggs of the British Limicolcs Extended to all Britisli Birds, your book would become the 



standard one on the subject." — J. Backhouse. 



" 1 think youi- book so far charming. You have carefully collected all the best information to date 



about the breeding of each bird, so that it forms a most useful book of reference There 



can be no question the individual illustrations are far the best since Hewitson ; and whatever his 

 excellence, he only gives us one or two illustrations, where you give us a dozen varieties." — 

 Henry J. Pearson. 



" The eggs are beautifully done." — T. A. Cotton. 



" A remarkably fine series of plates." — George H. Leigh. 



" I write to you now to ask if you do not see your way to extend your work so that it should 

 embrace the whole of the British Birds according to Howard Saunders. It would then be a fit 

 companion to Mr. Dresser's ' Birds ' and would stand, as the latter work does, at the top of the tree. 

 The illustrations are quite the best ever produced, and even in these days, when photography in the dark 

 is a fait arconijtli, and photography in colours may bo within measurable distance, it is difficult to 

 imagine that your drawings of eggs will be surpassed. The letterpress is also admirable, and I do not 

 think could be improved. I hope, therefore, that you will continue your work." — W. Is^e«ali,. 



