MR. BOOTH'S ORIGINAL WORK ON BRITISH BIRDS. 



Forming Three noble Folio Volumes, contaiuiug- IIG beautiful Coloured 



Plates ; Price of tlie Three Volumes, unbound, £21 ; 



in half-morocco, gilt tops, £25. 



ROUGH NOTES ON THE BIRDS OBSERVED 



During 25 years' Shooting and Collecting 



IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS, 



By E. T. BOOTH. 



With Plates from Drawings by E. Neale, taken from specimens in the 

 Author's possession. 



" No naturalist who goes to Brighton should omit to visit Mr. E. T. Booth's r.ew 

 museum in the Dj'ke Road. It contains a series of about 300 cases of British Birds. 

 Each species is placed in a separate case, and tbe specimens (male, female, young, 

 and often nest and eggs) are arranged in what the owner considers to be their 

 natural attitudes, with imitations of appropriate scenery in the background, often 

 copied from tbe actual spot in which the specimens themselves were procured. 

 The most wonderful feature in the collection is that the specimens have in every 

 case been procured by Mr. Booth himself during twenty-three years which he has 

 devoted to forming it. 



" Few living ornithologists have a better personal acquaintance with British 

 Birds than Mr. E. T. Booth, and we are all glad to liave the results of his observa- 

 tions, accompanied, as they are, by Mr. Keale's life-like illustrations. These are 

 taken entirely from subjects in Mr. Booth's own well-known collection at Brighton, 

 where every bird now figured may be examined. No visitor to Brighton who cares 

 the least for ornithology should omit to visit Mr. Booth's Bird-gallery. 



" Mr. Booth's observations, based entirely upon his pei'sonal experience, cannot 

 fail to be valuable ; and his remarks upon the geographical distribution of many of 

 the species, as regards tlie British Islands, are of considerable interest. 



" As before, Mr. Booth's letterpress is exceUent reading, and the articles on the 

 species which are not figured, and which are too numerous for mention, are quite 

 as interesting as the others." — The HjIs. 



" We have been so long accustomed to refer to standard woi'ks of reference, 

 which, tliough excellent in their kind, are after all but compilations, that it is 

 refreshing to take up a book in which the writer tells us nothing but what he has 

 himself observed, and, in most cases, noted down on tbe spot. Such information 

 as he sometimes conveys in a few paragraphs is worth jiages of the generalities 

 which one too often meets with in books on British birds, wherein the writers only 

 veil their ignorance of details, which, for want of personal observation, they are 

 unable to give. 



" Its utility, and, as we had said, its originality, sufficiently commend it to all 

 lovers of bird-lile." — Zooloqist. 



Demy Sfo, pp. 240. Price 12s. Qd. 



INDEX GENERUM AVIUM: A List of the Genera and 

 Subgenera of Birds. By F. 11. Waterhouse, A.L.S., Librarian 

 to the Zoological Society of London. 

 Indispensable to Working Ornithologists. 



R. H. PORTER, 18 Princes Street, Cavendish Square, London, W. 



