In tvjo handsome Royal Svo Volumes, cloth gilt, price £2 2s. net. 



IsT O T E S 



ON THE 



BIRDS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 



BY 



LORD LILFORD, 



President of the British Ornithologists' Union and of the 

 Northamptonshire Natural History Society. 



Illustrated by Messrs. A. THORBURN and G. E. LODGE. 



With a Map of Northamptonshire. 



" We must not conclude without saying something about tbe admirable illustrations, 

 by Mr. A. Thorburn, which embellish the work. Some of the reproductions of 

 Mr. Thorbiirn's sepia-drawings are not inferior to the coloured plates contributed by him 

 to Lord Lilford's series of figures of British birds, and that is as high praise as can be 

 given. Mr. Thorburn is by far the most excellent painter of birds now living, or, we may 

 say, that we are acquainted with. His drawings combine all tbe accuracy required to 

 satisfy a naturalist, and also, in a high degree, artistic genius. Every detail of the 

 plumage is distinct, and at the same time the bird has that appearance of being alive 

 which only real artistic feeling can give. Lord Lilford ' writes as a naturalist, a 

 sportsman, "and a traveller, and without any of that silly sentiment'which makes so many 

 authors of boolis about birds unreadable." — The Spectator. 



Royal Ato, with 61 accurately drawn and beautifully coloured Plates, and 4 Maps 

 of Geographical Distribution ; cloth, gilt top, price £7 7s. 



A MONOGRAPH 



OF THE 



LORIES, 



OR 



Bi?.TJSia:-TOisra-TJSiD i^-A.i^i^ots, 



COMPOSING THE 



Family LORIIDiE. 



BY 



ST. GEORGE MIVART, E.R.S. 



" The issue of Dr. Mivart's beautifully illustrated Monograph of the Lories must be 

 considered as one of the leading ornithological events of the past year, and would have 

 been noticed in our last number had not time failed us for its detailed examination. Now 

 that we have been able to study it carefull)', we have come to the conclusion that the 

 present volume forms no unworthy addition to the splendid series of pictured memoirs 

 upon select groups of birds which the brethren of the British Ornithologists' Union have 

 published during the past twenty years. In some points Dr. Mivart's monograph is almost 

 unique among its fellows, every one of the known species being figured on 61 plates 

 drawn by Keulemans, and 22 of the figures being taken from the typical specimens, whilst 

 16 of the species are now represented for the first time. In his arrangement of the Lories 

 and the o-eneral treatment of the genera and species, Dr. Mivart has wisely determined to 

 follow Count Salvadori's well-known work which constitutes the twentieth volume of the 

 British Museum Catalogue. Here, as he remarks in his preface, that accomplished 

 ornithologist ' has furnished ready to hand a careful classification, excellent though short 

 descriptions, exact statements as to geographical distribution, and an exhaustive biblio- 

 "raphy.' Thus Dr. Mivart's chief work has been the testing of Count Salvadori's 

 statements and the addition to them of such further information as his many friends and 

 correspondents in this country and on the Continent have been able to supply to him. 

 The anatomical chapter given in the introduction is, however, quite original, aa is the 

 exhaustive account of the geographical distribution of the Lories, which is excellently 

 illustrated by special maps, and presents many features of great interest." — The Ibis. 



LONDON: 



E. H. PORTER, 7 PRINCES STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE, \V, 



