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I3y TPiOJVL^lS O. OEISTTI^LY, 
Author of “ LtFE-HisTORtES of Birds op Eastern Pennsylvania” and of “The House Sparrow,” Member of the 
“Philadelphia Academy op Natural Sciences,” the “Nuttall Ornithological Club,” the 
“Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences,” the “Franklin Scientific 
Society of the University op Pennsylvania,” etc., etc. 
ILLUSTRATED BY ELEGANTLY COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 
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Whilst several beautifully illustraterl books on the birds ot our country have been presented to the public from time 
to time, it is much to be regretted that no regular work, containing proper delineations of nests and eggs, had made its 
appearance, excepting a large folio at $5 per part. 
When we consider the interest manifested by the youth of our land in that highly attractive department of Orni- 
thology of which it treats, we are led to believe there is room for anotlier, which shall be none.^he less true to nature, but 
which shall Iiave, in addition to accuracy, the important quality of cheapness. With this object in view, we liave em- 
barked in the enterprise, hoping that our ornithological friends and others will give it ample encouragement. 
This work will be something more than a mere book of nests, eggs and birds. It will endeavor to bring into promi- 
nence those interesting and curious pliases of liird-life which are present during the breeding-period, and which have been 
the principal study of the author for many years. Tlie text, therefore, will mainly be the result of his own observa- 
tions and research. 
CONDITIONS OF PVBLICATION. 
The work will be issued in monthly parts, quarto size, and sold only by subscription. Each part will be printed on 
super-calendered plate paper, and will contain TWO magnificent chromo-lithographic plates, and average twelve pages 
of descriptive text. One of the parts wilt contain a Chromo Portrait of the Author, without extra charge. 
The price will be ONE DOLLAR per part, and in no case will subscriptions be received for less than the entire work. 
The work will consist of TWENTY-FIVE PARTS. The design of the author is to figure the typical nests of our 
species, and the most marked variations therefrom. Since issuing the first three parts of this work, there has been sucli 
demand for the Birds, in connection with the Nests and Eggs, we have also figured them. After Part VI. the birds, in 
life-like colors, appear on every Plate, drawn by the best ornitliological artist in the country — Mr. ED It IN SHEPP ARD 
—and with the S.'ith Part, we will furnisli all the Birds, on other plates, which belong to the nine Nests where tliey have 
not been figured. 
^“This makes one of tlie most beautiful, useful and instructive hooks ever published. 
J. A. WAGENSELLER, Publisher, 
No. 23 NORTH SIXTH Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
