WATKINS & DONCASTER, 



Manufacturers of Cabinets and Apparatus for 

 Collectors of Birds' Eggs, Insects, Plants, &c. 



A large stock of Insects, Birds' Eggs, &c. List of Clutches of Birds' 

 Eggs on application. Climbing Irons, best steel, with straps complete, 

 os° ner pair. Egg Collector's Outfit, containing Drills, Blowpipes, and all 

 Kequisites complete, with Book of Instructions, post free, 3s. 3d. Label 

 Lists of every description. Birds and Animals stuffed and mounted in 

 Natural Positions. For particulars see our Catalogue, one hundred pages..v! 



36, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. 



FORBES & HANLEY'S ' British Sliells,' 4 vols. (^13), £5 10s. Donovan's 

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 Mollusca,' 3 vols. (^4 lOs.), .£1. Sir W. Jardine's ' Naturalist's Library /d 



40 vols., 1,200 coloured plates, ^£3 10s. Shaw's ' Zoology,' 30 vols. (.£36 15s.), ^5f 

 Davis' * Natural History of Animals,' 8 vols., coloured plates and 1000 illusi 

 trations, =£1 5s. Many others, cheap to clear. 



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THE AVICULTURAL MAGAZINE 



Edited by H. D. ASTLEY. 



For the study of Foreign and British Birds in Freedom and in Captivity. 



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BIRDSNESTING Si BIRD=SKINNINQ. A Complete 

 Descriouon of ine Nests and E^gs of Birds wJiica Breed in Britain, 

 bv Edward Newman. — Skcond Editiok. with Directions for Collecting and 

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 foolpcap 3vo. Price 1&. Postage Sd. 



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ADLARD & SON and WEST NEWMAN, Bartholomew Close, London, E.C; 



282 pp. Cloth Extra. 6s. 6(1 Post Feee. 



By THOMAS E. LONES, M.A., LL.D., B.Sc. 



With Illustrative Draioings. 

 Contents : 



Introductorv— Method of Investigation— Celestial, Atmospheric, and 

 T-n-estrial Phenomena— Light and Colour, Heat and Sound— Animals, 

 Phnts and Inanimate Matter— Dissections— Homoeomena— Anliomoeo- 

 meria 'and their functions— Animal Motion— Generation and Develop- 

 n^ent— Classification of Animals— Anaima, or Animals without biooa— 

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