Tf?is Day is PtilVtJhedy 



AS A COMPANION 



TO THE 



HISTORY OF BRITISH INSECTS, 



Price TwQ Shillings and Sixpence each Number, of an entirely new, and 

 elegantly finifhed Work, 



To he cortlmted Monthly., 



THE 



NATURAL HISTORY 



BRITISH BIRDSj 



O R, A 



SELECTION OF THE MOST RARE, BEAUTIFUL, and INTERESTING 



BIRDS 



WHICH INHABIT THIS COUNTRY: 



THE DESCRIPTIONS FROM THE 



SrSTEMA NAT'URM OF L I N N JS U S r 



WITH 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS, 



EITHER ORIGINAL, OR COLLECTED FROM THE LATEST 



AND MOST ESTEEMED 



ENGLISH ORNITHOLOGISTS', 



AND EMBELLISHED WITH 



FIGURES, 



DRAWN, ENGRAVED, AND COLOURED FR9M THE ORIGINAL SPECIMENS. 



By E. DONOVAN. - 



LONDON: 



PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR 5 AND FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTON, 



No. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. 1798. 



CONDITIONS. 



I. nP'HIS Work will be comprifed in Sixty-two Numbers, Price Tnjoo 



A Shillings and Six -pence each Number. 

 JI. Two Plates will be given in each Number. They will be taken on 

 Whatman's Superfine Wove, or Vellum Drawing Paper, and 

 finijhed in a peculiar Style of Elegance, from Original Specimens noiv 

 in the Collegian of the Author. 

 The Letter Prefs will be on the fineft Wove Printing Pnp^r, and 

 Hot prefTed. 

 JII. An Index will be given in every twelfth Number ; and the V7ork 

 will form Five handfome Volumes in Royal Oftavo. 



