London, 15 Piccadilly, February, 1870. 



VALUABLE 



ORNITHOLOGICAL WORKS, 



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Just completed: 



Exotic ORNITHOLOGY, by Philip Lutley SCLATEE, 

 M.A., Ph.U., F.R.S., &c., and Osbert SALYIN, M.A., P.Z.S., &c. com- 

 plete in 13 parts, impl. 4to. each 21« ; laege pape«, royal folio, each £2. 2* 



1866-69 



Under this title has been completed a series of 100 COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC 



ILLUSTRATIONS of NEW, or hitherto UNFIGURED BmuS, to form a SUPPLEMENT 



to B'jffon's Planches Euliimine'es, Puris, 1770-86 ; to Temmixck's Planches Coloriees, 5 vols. 



Pann, 1838 ; and to Dks Murs, Iconographie Ornitliologique, Paris, 1845-49. 



Although it was originally intended by the Authors that the subjects for illustration in this 

 work should be selected Ironi the many new and remarkable ornithic forms which the exertions 

 of modern collectors have recently brought to light in nearly every jiart of the world's surface, 

 particularly wilhm the tropics, it was Ibund, as the work progressed, that it would be more con- 

 venient in this first sciies to restrict it to the illustration of the birds of the neotropical region, 

 i.e. America south of the United States. 



This series then contains illustrations of American bikds only, a few of them being taken 

 from the interesting and i>cculiar forms inhabiting the West India islands ; a greater number 

 represent birds of Central America, a district personally explored by one of the Authors ; the 

 remainder are figures of species belonging to South America proper. 



The species illustrated are 104 in number, belonging to 51 genera. To the final illustration 

 in each genus is appended, in almost every ease, a systematic list of all the other American 

 members of the same genus known to the Authors, and the geographical distribution, compiled 

 from every available authentic source, has been added to each species mentioned in the work. 



The majority of the specimens from which the drawings have been taken are to be found in 

 the private collections of the authors, but the Museums of Berlin, Paris and Neucliatel and in 

 England the British Museum, the Norfolk and Norwich Museum and the Derby Museum of 

 Liverpool have all kindly lent specimens (many of them types) for illustration, and thus added 

 materially to the value of the drawings in a scientific jioint of view. 



The first se; ics of this work contains one hundred plates. Each part contains eight 

 coloured )d/ites and two sheetn of le'ter-press. The thirteenth part contains the four last plates, 

 and the Title and Index to the volume. 



Only Onb hundred and fifty copies of the work, in imperial 4to. have been printed. 

 The price of each [lart is £L l.v, to be paid for on delivery. 



Eifteen copies have been printed on LARGE PAPER, royal folio, to match the Large Paper 

 issues of Temminck and Des Murs. The subscription price of these copies, is, each part, £2. 2*. 



Des Murs Iconographie Ornithologiqiie : 



Nouveau E,ecuei] general de plauches peintes d'Oiseaux, pour servir de 

 suite et de COMPLEMENT aux plauches EnUnuiuees de BUEFON et aux 

 planches coloriees de TEMMINCK et LAUGLER de Chartrouse, avec 

 texte, figures par PEEYOT et OUDARD, complkte in 1 vol. lolio, 72 

 superbly co.'oured plates, £6. 6s; or Jif. bd. morocco, qilt top, £7. 7s 



Paris, 1S15-49 



the same, LAEGE PAPEE, roy. fulio, £10. 10s 1815-49 



This beautiful work, now out of print, and very scarce, forms a " Complement" to 

 Buffon's Planches Enluminecs and Temminck and Laugicr's Planches Colorii-es. The plates, 

 from the pencil of M. Oudard are beautifully executed. The new work, "Exotic Ornithology," 

 by Messrs. Scluter and Salvin, now com]3lete, forms a suite to ihe " Iconograjihie." Tliose who 

 possess the works of Buflbn or Ti-mniinck, and all subscribers to the " Exotic Ornithology" 

 should also have this fine work of Des Murs. 



