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NEW POPULAR EDITION OF AN AUTHORITATIVE WORK 

 ON ORNITHOLOGY 



A History of 

 North American Land Birds 



BY 

 S. F. BAIRD, T. M. BREWER, and R. RIDGWAY 



With more than 1000 Illustrations, including Colored Frontis- 

 pieces; 64 full page plates containing 545 heads of birds, 

 printed in colors, and 598 wood engravings 



Three Volumes. Large Octavo. Over i8oo pages. Cloth. Qilt top, in box. 



Price, $t0.00 



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THIS important work on American ornithology, giving a larger amount of 

 information than any other work upon the subject, has hitherto been pub- 

 lished without any illustrations in colors at $24. It is now issued in volumes 

 which are much handier in size, and at a price which is extremely low, 

 taking into consideration its wealth of illustration (including many in colors) 

 and immense amount of information. 

 An especially important feature of the work, one which greatly illuminates 

 the subject, is the portion written by Dr. Brewer, containing the most graphic 

 and accurate accounts of the habits of the birds which have been penned since 

 Audubon. 



Other valuable features are the statements given of the exact rank of each 

 bird, the analytical and synoptical tables symplifying identification, accounts of 

 the geographical distribution in America and other parts of the world, descriptions 

 of varieties not in other works, etc. 



The illustrations for beauty and practical aid to the student are unsurpassed. 

 They consist first of a series of cuts giving the peculiarities of the wing, tail, bill, 

 and feet of each genus: second, a series of 593 full-length figures of the birds, 

 beautifully engraved on wood in the highest style of the art; third, a series of 545 

 life size heads of the birds, accurately printed in colors; fourth, frontispieces in 

 each volume, beautifully colored by hand. 



The book contains over 1800 pages, and includes an appendix giving additions 

 and corrections, explanation of terms used in describing the external form of 

 birds, glossary of technical terms; together with index of English names, index 

 of scientific names, and index of the plates. 



'I'here is no other work in the English lansuage to which the reader can turn with equal cer- 

 liiiniy of HndiE? full and exact information respecting the Birds of America.— //arp«r's Weekly. 





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