THE OOLOGIST. 



Ill IBM. 



BY H. NEHRLING, 



WITH 36 COLOEED PLATES AFTER WATER-COLOR PAINTINGS. 



BY PROF. R. RIDGWAY, SMITSONIAN INSTITUTE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



PROF. A. GOERING LEIPZIG, AND G. MUETZEL, BERLIN. 



The publisher takes pleasure in presenting the above named work to the pub- 

 lic. It will be published in 12 parts, each containing 40 to 48 pages reading 

 matter and three colored plates of the finest quality. 



No efforts have been spared to make this the most excellent of all works of 

 a similar character heretofore published. The reading matter will be printed 

 from large new type on finest bookpaper. The colored plates are made after the 

 ongmals of artists who rank highest in their profession. The firm who repro- 

 duced these originals in a highly finished style, Ernst Kaufmann, in Lahr, Ger- 

 many, and New York, is well-known in art-circles for its specialty: Cliromo- 

 work. The author, Mr. Nehrling, is an active member of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, a corresponding member of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, 

 and honorary member of a large number of European scientific societies! 

 Mr. Nehrling is an original writer, not simply a compiler. He has observed the 

 life of our birds in the woods of Wisconsin, where he was born, in the prairies of 

 Illinois, in Florida, Texas, Missouri, and many other states. He is well Versed 

 also in the literature of Ahierican and European Ornithology. The Ornitholoo-i- 

 ral Magazines at home and abroad have published series of articles from his peli. 

 which have won him honor and esteem among the scientists as well as among the 

 amateurs in ornithology, and the lovers of the beautiful winged inhabitants of 

 our country. In short, Mr. Nehrling and the above named artists have combined 

 with the publisher to present to the public a work on North American birds, 

 %vhich will, by its own merits and its fine make-up, undoubtedly become a stand- 

 ard work, one that cannot he missed in any well selected Private, College or 

 Public Library. The work is also published in German. 



The price of each part is one dollar. The whole work will be published in 12 

 piirts, and com])leted in 1890. 



Subscriptions for complete copies, bound in full morocco gilt, are taken 

 Blow. Price $15.00. 



ai^^lie size of the work, the quality of bookpaper, and the style of types are 

 represented in the Prospectus, which will be mailed to all applicants mentioning 

 the OoLOGisT and enclosing stamp to pay postage. 



QRO. BRUMDER, 



286 & 288 West later Street, MILWAUKEE, WIS, 



