NOW READY. VOLUME 1 



(Containing the Passeres.) 



A Practical Handbook 

 of British Birds 



Edited by H. F. WITHERBY, M.B.E., M.B.O.U., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S. 



CONTRIBUTORS- 



E. HARTERT, ph.d., m.b.o.u.. f.z.s. ANNIE C. JACKSON, h.m.b.o.u. 



Rev. F. C. R. JOURDAIN, m.a.. m.b.o.u. C. OLDHAM, f.z.s., m.b.o.u. 



N. F. TiCEHURST, o.b.e., m.a., f.r.c.s., m.b.o.u. 



Specially arranged for quick reference. Distinguishing 



characters simplifying identification, full description of all plumages. 



Breedmg habits (nest, eggs, season, incubation, etc.). Food. 

 Distribution and Migration. 



VOLUME I.— Strongly bound in Buckram. Gilt 



Top. 550 Pages. 140 Illustrations. 40s. 



Thin Paper Edition, bound in Rexine. Useful 



for Field Naturalists and Travellers, 48s. 6d. 



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IBIS: "We feel sure that the work, when completed, will prove of the 

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AUK : "We shall look forwad with interest to the succeeding parts of this 

 important work, which should easily become the authoritative book of reference 

 upon British avifauna." 



SCIENCE PROGRESS : "Here, for the first time, we find complete 

 accounts of British bird.i in all their various plumages from nestling to 

 a^ult — an enormous unJeitaking." 



FIELD : " What is at once apparent on turning over the pages is the novel 

 plan of figuring in colours the immature plumages of well-known British species." 



COUNTRY LIFE; " Eminently practical and valuable guide fcr thL- field 

 naturalist.' 



CONDOR : "About the most thoroughly satisfyins book we have yet seen 

 on the birds of any one country." 



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