



Publisher's Card. 



To meet a common want, and to gratify a universal taste, the undersigned takes pleasure in placing before the public 

 a work containing beautifully colored illustrations and descriptions of over six hundred different species of birds, comprising 

 all that are known to exist on this Continent, including a popular account of their habits and characteristics, and embracing 

 the general outlines of the science of Ornithology with the classification or division of birds into classes, orders, groups, 

 and families, fully describing each of these in detail. 



The drawings for the work are made from life, and uniformly reduced to one-quarter the natural size, by Theodore 

 Jasper, A. M., M. D., an Artist and a Naturalist, who has made the study of Ornithology the business of his life. 



In addition to the illustrations of over six hundred different species of birds, the work contains, in the part devoted 

 to the science of Ornithology, drawings of— First, the skeleton of a bird; second, a bird's wing; third, the position and 

 form of the feathers ; fourth, the terminology of a bird ; fifth, about forty plates illustrating different groups of birds. 



The material for the work is taken from notes made by Dr. Jasper from actual personal observation in fields and 

 forests, continued through a long series of years, and from standard works on the general science of Ornithology, or on 

 some of its departments. 



A complete account of the birds of North America, including Mexico and Central America, is to be found in this 

 work, the classification being so arranged as to agree with the most modern and approved systems, excluding all unnecessary 

 technicalities and irrelevant matter. 



There is no more attractive study than Ornithology, the department of zoology which treats of the structure, habits, 

 and classification of birds. The graceful forms, movements, and habits of the feathered tribes have been celebrated in all 

 ages by poets and artists, and have furnished the instructors of mankind with lessons of wisdom. But this admiration is 

 not confined to the poet, the artist, or the sage; it is universal. Wherever human beings are found, the forms, the 

 plumage, the songs, the migrations, the loves and contests of birds awaken curiosity and wonder. No similar work, con- 

 taining so many beautiful and faithful pictures of living birds, and so much descriptive and scientific information, is now 

 extant, or has ever been published in this or any other country. 



The work is intended to be bound into two volumes. Two frontispiece plates are furnished to each subscriber for 

 that purpose. There are also, at the close of each volume, an index and an exposition of the technical terms used in the 

 work. 



JACOB H. STUDER. 



Columbus, Ohio, November i, 1873. 



