THE 



CABINET OF NATURAL HISTORY 



AND 



Is designed to embrace the higher and more interesting branches of Zoology: 

 viz^ Ornithology and Mammalogy, together with an account of the sports and pas- 

 times of North America. 



This work will be issued in numbers, about every five weeks, in a quarto form, 

 and printed with new type on fine royal paper. Each number will contain twenty- 

 four pages of closely printed matter, and embellished with two beautiful coloured 

 plates, of Birds and Quadrupeds, drawn from nature, and executed in the best 

 style, with a perfect history of each object so represented. It will also contain 

 many interesting Anecdotes, relating to Natural History, and all other subject, 

 which may give interest, comportable with the spirit of the work, as connected 

 with fishing, hunting, and shooting parties, the various clubs established for gym- 

 nastic exercises, aquatic sports, &c. &c. 



TERMS — Eight Dollars per annum, payable in advance. 



J. DOUGHTY, 

 No. 5, Library street, Philadelphia 



Persons procuring seven subscribers, and remitting the money to me, shall 

 receive eight copies of the work 



{£J° Notes of solvent Banks, of a less denomination than Five Dollars, taken 

 in payment for subscriptions to this work. 



A thirteenth number will be added to the above, which will contain the Por- 

 trait of a Naturalist and his Biography. 





