RANDOM NOTES ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



15 



The NEV/ KEY 



TO 



ZLsToiS/ma: -A.DV[:ER,ic!_A.iT IBzk-ds, 

 By DR. ELLIOT COUES. 



The publishers promise it soon, and also give the following particulars concerning it: 



The new Key contains 900 pages and 562 cuts, in comparison to 361 pages and 238 cuts in the 

 old. The type is smaller in the new than in the old, thereby insuring a still larger amount of 

 reading matter than shown by the respective numbers of pages. The one volume contains four 

 parts, viz. : 



Part I. consists of Coues' Field Ornithology, an instructive work on collecting and preparing 

 specimens. 



Part II. defines Ornithology, shows the external and internal structure of birds, and teaches 

 the classification, etc., of the science. 



Part III. occupies the body of the work, giving descriptions of the Birds of North America 

 with the geographical distribution of each. 



Part IV. is a list of Fossil Birds of North America. 



The work is fully indexed with several thousand entries. Price complete in one stout volume, 



Royal Octavo, Vellum Cloth $10.00 



Library Sheep 11.50 



Half Morocco, Extra 13.50 



SPECIAL OFFER. 



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80UTHWICK & JENCK8, 



PROVIDENCE. R. I. 



A RARE CHANCE 



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CAROLINA PARRAREETS 



AT $2.50 EACH. 



This Bird is rapidly approaching- extinction, and we 

 ti-ied for sevei-al years to procure them, but with- 

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 a few very fine ones. 



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