A VOLUME OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF 



The Life-History Groups of Birds 



IN THE 



GROSVENOR MUSEUM, CHESTER. 



THESE beautiful Groups are acknowledged by experts to be some of the most skilful 

 examples of artistic and scientific taxidermy and natural arrangement ever pro- 

 duced, and I have pleasure in announcing that I have issued a series of Photo- 

 graphs of them, taken with every care to make the Pictures as nearly perfect as possible, 

 and printed in the permanent Platinotype process. 



It is hoped that they will appeal to three classes: 

 Curators and Museum Authorities; 

 All lovers of Birds and Nature; 

 Artists. 



Each plate is accompanied by brief explanatory text, for which I am indebted to Mr R. 

 Nevvstead, the Curator of the Grosvenor Museum, every one of the groups being his work. 



The following is a list of the Plates: 



"The Roseate Tern" (Sterna. Dougalli) Montagu 



(Males, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 

 "The Arctic Tern" (Sterna macriird) Naumann 



(Males, Female, Nests, Eggs, and Young.) 

 "The Ring-Ouzel" (Turdus torquatus) Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 

 "The Stonechat" (Pratincola rubicola] Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 

 "The Redbreast" (Erithacus rubecula) Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 



"Golden-Crested Wren" (Regulus cristatus) K. L. 

 Koch 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 

 "Long Tailed Titmouse" (Acredula caudata) Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 

 "The Great Titmouse" (Parus major) Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 

 "The Tree-Creeper" (Certhia familiaris) Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 

 "The Swallow" (Hirundo rusticd) Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 

 "The House-Martin" (Chelidon urdica) Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 

 "The Chaffinch" (Fringilla c&lebs) Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 

 "The Hawfinch" (Coccothraustes vulgaris) Pallas 



(Male, Female, Nest, Eggs, and Young.) 



"The Magpie" (Pica rustled] Scopoli 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 

 "The Skylark" (Alauda arvensis) Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 

 "The Swift" (Cypselus apus) Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, Eggs, and Young.) 

 "The Long-eared Owl (Asia otus) Linnaeus 



(Young in Down.) 



"The Common Buzzard" (Buteo vulgaris] Leach 

 "The Kestrel" (Falco tinnunculus) Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Young.) 

 "The Kestrel" (F. tinnunculus) 



(A Nest of three young ones in the Down, care- 

 fully modelled from Life.) 

 "Sparrow Hawk" (Accipiter nisus] Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 

 " The Heron " (Ardea cinerea) Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, Young, and Broken Egg.) 

 "The Sheld or Burrow-Duck" (Tadorna cornuta) S. 

 G. Gmelin 



(Male, Female, Nest, and Eggs.) 



"The Corn-crake or Land Rail" (Crex pratensis) 

 Bechstein 



(Male, Female, Nest, Broken Egg, and Young.) 

 "Lapwing or Peewit" (Vanellus vulgaris) Bechstein 



(Male, Female, Nest, Eggs, and Young.) 

 "The Little Tern" (Sterna minuta) Linnaeus 



(Male, Female, Nest, Eggs, and Young.) 



All the Photographs are mounted on fine cardboard with real India-Paper centres, each 

 leaf being " guarded," and the whole made up into a handsome volume bound by Zaehns- 

 dorf. The Edition is very limited and the Price Six Guineas. A few carefully selected 

 copies can be had in a superior binding for Presentations, &c. half-bound in best morocco 

 Nine Guineas, or whole bound Twelve Guineas. 



G. WATMOUGH WEBSTER. F.C S., F.R.P.S. 

 THE STUDIO, 

 33, BRIDGE STREET Row, 

 CHESTER. 



