INDISPENSABLE WORKS ON BRITISH BIRDS. 



in. 



BIRDSNESTING; 



Being a complete Description of the Nests and Eggs of Birds 

 which breed in Great Britain and Ireland. 



By EDWARD NEWMAN, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



This work is written expressly for the use of out-of-door 

 naturalists and that better class of schoolboys who take up 

 Natural History as an instructive recreation. Under each 

 species will be found 



1. The English name. 



2. The Latin name. 



3. The situation in which the nest is to be found. 



4. The materials of which the nest is built, together with any 

 particulars of its shape which may assist in determining by what 

 bird it is built. 



5. The number and colour of the eggs, describing such 

 variations as are occasionally met with. 



In compiling this work the sources whence the author has 

 drawn his information are 



1. His own memoranda. 



2. Colonel Montagu's ' Ornithological Dictionary.' 



3. Mr. Selby's ' Illustrations of British Ornithology.' 



4. Mr. Hewitson's ' Oology.' 



5. The ' Zoologist,' not only every volume but every number 

 of which abounds in original and highly important observations 

 on the life-history and distinguishing characters of birds. 



6. The " Letters of Rusticus." 



7. Observations, emendations and additions, by Mr. Bond, of 

 London, and Mr. Doubleday, of Epping. 



PRICE ONE SHILLING. 



JOHN VAN VOORST, 1, PATERNOSTER ROW. 



