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tuous and elegant book — the best printed treatise on American 

 birds extant. One of my amanuenses being set to the task, 

 reported, ' No typographical error found after close scrutiny. ' ' ' 

 Coues further speaks of its scarcity and that "the edition was 

 bought up by J. Sabine & Sons, N. Y., who advertised the 

 4to copies at $4." An American edition of the same date was 

 published by Grambo & Co. of Philadelphia, which according 

 to Coues, appeared before the Glasgow edition, and differs only 

 in the specific name of the Nighthawk, popetue instead of vir- 

 ginianus. There is also an interesting early reference to the 

 European House Sparrow in America, and an illustration of the 

 same by Sinclair. 



Another edition of this same work, identical with and ap- 

 parently from the same plates as the Glasgow edition, but with- 

 out illustrations, appeared in pamphlet form, published by 

 Henry Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, 1869. At one time Turn- 

 bull appears to have contemplated joining this firm, but for 

 some reason failed to do so. This pamphlet edition is the one 

 commonly quoted and is still occasionally met with among 

 dealers. Coues refers to it as selling "for one-third the price 

 of the other, to which it is inferior in style, though still a hand- 

 some pamphlet." The highly calendered green paper cover 

 bears a title similar to that of the title-page inside, save that it 

 lacks the punctuation and author's titles, and also the Latin 

 quotation, the space of this last being substituted by an engrav- 

 ing of two birds on a leafy branch, fairly good representations 

 of the Golden-winged and Chestnut-sided Warblers. The Latin 

 quotation referred to is substituted in the space of the title-page 

 for the vignette of the Meadowlark in the illustrated edition. 

 It is from Ovid : 



aves, solatia ruris, 

 Assuetum silvis, innocuumque genus, 

 Quae facitis nidos, quae plumis ova fovetis, 

 Et facili dulces editis ore modos. — Ovid. 



Mr. S. N. Rhoads informs me that a few copies of this 8vo 

 pamphlet had the imprint of C. D. Price, a Philadelphia book- 

 seller. At the end of the last page, (50) is the same reference 



