PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENT. 



FLOWERS have been called " the poetry of na- 

 ture," a compliment which might be applied, with 

 even more justice, to birds ; which not only vie 

 with the tulip and the rose in the splendour and 

 beauty of their colours, but in their sprightly and 

 joyous movements, their graceful forms, and, more 

 than all, in the variety and sweetness of their mel- 

 ody, may be said to imbody the very soul of poe- 

 try. It must be highly pleasing, therefore, and no 

 less instructive, to study the character and habits 

 of this most interesting portion of " animated na- 

 ture." 



The volume here offered to the public will be 

 found to contain many charming, and scarcely less 

 wonderful things, in relation to the feathered tribes ; 

 and the reader will discover that the great Creator 

 has been no less liberal in endowing them with 

 the instincts essential to their individual preser- 

 vation and happiness, than with the qualities which 

 make them more directly the objects of our ad- 

 miration and delight. 



