WEST, NEWMAN & CO., 54, HATTON GARDEN, LONDON. 



THE POCKET-BOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



By E. F. M. Elms. With description of British species and distinguishing 

 characters; habits ; food ; language or song ; nest and eggs. Foolscap 8vo, 

 Cloth, gilt top, 760 pp. + blanks for Notes. Price 2s. 6d., postage 2d. 



" We are quite certain that if this publication is rightly used and faithfully consulted, 

 any field naturalist may obtain a thorough introduction to a knowledge of the birds he 

 may meet on his rambles, and it should be slipped in the pocket of those taking a summer 

 holiday who are not in the strict sense of the word already ornithologists."— Zoologist. 



"The amount of information conveyed is extraordinary. Full of those illuminating 

 touches which are impossible unless a thorough and sympathetic knowledge is superadded 

 to style."— Tribune. 



BIRDSNESTING AND BIRD-SKINNING: 



A Complete Description of the Nests and Eggs of Birds which Breed in Britain. 

 By Edward Newman. Second Edition. With Directions for Col- 

 lecting and Preservation; and a Chapter on Bird-skinning. By Miller 

 Christy. Cloth extra, Fcap 8vc, Is. 



"Very good indeed, and can be thoroughly recommended." — Athenceum. 



" A book for the country, and a book for boys— and for girls too. It is cheap, easily 

 understood, and slips into the pocket. Altogether it is a capital little handbook." — Bell's 

 Weekly Messenger. 



FAMILIAR INDIAN BIRDS. 



By Gordon Dalgliesh. 80 pp., cloth, gilt, price 2s. 6d. Illustrated by 

 half-tone Blocks from the Drawings of R. H. Bunting and H. B. 

 Neilson. 



This little book is intended mainly for those who live in, or visit, India, and who are 

 interested in the birds they are likely to meet in everyday life, and who wish to learn 

 something about them. The authsr writes from personal knowledge and observation. 



" A very handy little monograph . . . as an accurate vade viecum of Indian 

 bird life the little treatise may be very cordially recommended . . . admirably 

 fulfils its object." — Morning Post of India. 



A BIRD COLLECTOR'S MEDLEY. 



By E. C. Arnold, M.A. Crown 4to, cloth, gilt extra. Pp. 144, 

 Price 10s. With twelve coloured full-page illustrations, and eight un- 

 coloured, from the author's drawings. Illustrated in the text by ttventy 

 process blocks. 



A book for amateur collectors and shore-shooters, and of especial interest to those 

 who may visit the Eastbourne Museum, where the author's collection is deposited. 



" All who take delight in the study of birds, whether collectors or not, will 

 thoroughly enjoy and profit by Mr. Arnold's able and instructive volume." — Tribune. 



"This is a book written by an enthusiastic bird collector, who shoots and sets up 

 his own specimens, and is his own artist. ... It is living again the old life to 

 read these interesting pages. . . . Mr. Arnold takes us over many good haunts 

 of rare birds, and incidentally gives us many facts and hints. The ' Notes on Bird- 

 preserving ' contain nuggets of experience. The book is fully illustrated, twelve of 

 the plates being coloured, and doing credit to the reproducers." — The Zoologist. 



" We have nothing but good words to say of the excellent writing and capital 

 pictures in colour and black-and-white which Mr. Arnold has given us of the birds, 

 and where and how to find them." — Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News. 



" It is most entertainingly written, full of good stories and of useful hints. . . . 

 Mr. Arnold's illustrations, most of which are coloured, are both beautiful and true 

 to life, and altogether the work of this genial sportsman can be confidently recom- 

 mended not only to those amateur collectors and shore-shooters to whom it is dedi- 

 cated, but to all such as feel inclined to extend tbeir acquaintance with Natural 

 History. It is a book which it would be hard to better and impossible to supplant." — 

 Morning Post. 



