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is at the present time perhaps no one more fitted, if he 

 were willing, to prepare that urgently needed work, a clear, 

 comprehensive, but concise, book on the birds of the Indian 

 and Pacific Oceans. 



In America there are good bird professors on every hand, 

 besides sporting writers who compete with any in the 

 mother country. The following are all useful books which 

 may be consulted with advantage. 



" Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United 

 States," 20 fine coloured plates, equal to drawings, each 

 measuring twenty-two by twenty-eight inches, mounted on 

 cardboard. List of plates : the American snipe, the green- 

 winged teal, the woodcock, the mallard duck, the American 

 quail, the black duck, the ruffed grouse, the blue-bill duck, 

 the prairie chicken, the red-head duck, the Canada grouse, 

 the wood duck, the Calif ornian valley quail, the bume- 

 headed duck, the upland plover, the golden-eye duck or 

 whistler, the Calif ornian mountain quail, the widgeon, the 

 canvas-back duck, and the brant; one volume, atlas folio 

 (1878). 



Wilson's "American Ornithology," enlarged by Jardine, 

 over 100 beautifully coloured plates of the birds of America, 

 three volumes (1876). 



" Fauna Boreali Americana," the Zoology of the 

 northern part of British America ; the volume comprising 

 the birds is by Swainson, illustrated by 52 coloured plates 

 and wood engravings, royal 4to (1831). 



Coue's "Birds of the North- West," a handbook of the 

 ornithology of the regions drained by the Missouri river 

 and its tributaries (Washington, 1874). 



"The Birds of Jamaica," by P. H. Gosse. 



Lewis's "American Sportsman," containing hints to 

 sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game 

 birds and wildfowl of America; and Long's "American 

 Wildfowl Shooting," containing full and accurate de- 

 scriptions of the haunts, habits, and methods of shooting 



