A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS, 



WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OF THEIR EGGS. 



By HENRY SEEBOHM, E.Z.S. &c. 



This fine Worl- forms Four Volumes : Three of Text and one of Plates. 

 Price, in Parts, as issued, £Q 6s. In half-morocco, gilt tops, £7. 



" Mr. Seeboiim's work will be kuown to most of our readers ah-eady ; but the 

 commencement of such an undertaking should not pass unchronicled in the pages 

 of ' The Ibis.' Oology, it is true, as Mr. Seebohm tells us in his prospectus, has 

 been much neglected of late years — at all events the scientific aspect of it ; and 

 Hewitson's works being out of date, it was quite time that another British 

 Oology should take its place. ... As his friends are well aware, no one is more 

 competent, . . . from his unrivalled jiersonal experiences in almost every part of 

 the Western Palrearctic region." — The Ibis. 



" The text contains not only a description of each egg and its varieties, but also 

 a very full account of the life-history of each bird. ... If we may conceive the 

 works of Yarrell and Ilewitson rolled into one, with corrections, emendations, and 

 important additions, and with woodcuts as well as coloured plates, such a work 

 will be Mr. Seebohm's when completed." — -Zoologist. 



" To those who imagine that British Ornithology is worked out and there is 

 nothing left to do in this well-worn field, we conunend the study of the present 

 book, as presenting us with a delightfully fresh view of an old and familiar subject. 

 . . . We must regret that we have not space to give extracts from the many charming 

 accounts of the habits of our English birds of prey, which have certainly not been 

 surpassed by any modern writer. . . . We unhesitatingly express our opinion that 

 since the time of Macgillivray no such original book as Mr. Seebohm's has been 

 published on British Ornithology ; and, in spite of a few less satisfactory illustra- 

 tions, we tliink that the figures of the eggs are by far the best that have yet been 

 given." — I^ature. 



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CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS; 



An attempt to Diagnose the Subclasses, Orders, Suborders, and 

 some of the Families of Existing Birds, 



By HENRY SEEBOHM, E.Z.S. &c. 



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