ADVERTISEMENT. 



THIS Edition of the "Manual of British Birds" is the 

 same as the first, with the addition of Descriptions of 

 Eighteen Species, most of which have been recently 

 added to our Fauna an Index to the Latin Names of 

 the Orders, Families, and Genera, and an Index to the 

 English Names of the Orders, Families, Genera, and 

 Species, including the common and provincial names of 

 the latter. The former subsidiary title of " British 

 Birds" has now been adopted as the general title, as 

 more distinctly indicating that the work contains de- 

 scriptions of all the Birds which have been met with in 

 the British Islands. 



Whatever may be the imperfections of this little work, 

 it is gratifying to its author to know that it has been 

 found useful in promoting a study calculated to afford 

 much delight, with as little pain as we usually find ac- 

 companying the most harmless of human pursuits. 



W. MACGILLIYRAY. 



Marischal College, Aberdeen, 

 May, 1846. 



