

A MOST VALUABLE ILLUSTRATED WORK, 



For all Lovers of the Beautiful in IV at u re and Art : 





DRAWN FROM LIFE 



THEODOEE JASPER, A.M. M.D. 



And Uniformly Reduced to One-Quarter th.eir Natural Size. 





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There is no more attractive and instructive study than Ornithology, the department of Zoology which treats of the structure, hab- 

 its, 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. To gratify this universal taste, the publisher of "The Birds of North 

 America" is issuing a work to contain 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. In addition to the illustrations of over Six Hundred Species of Birds, the work will contain , 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. Two illustrated frontispiece 

 plates will also be furnished to each subscriber when the work is completed, as it is intended to be bound into two volumes. 



The drawings for the work are made on stone by Theodore Jasper, A.M., M.D., an Artist and a Naturalist, who has made the 

 study of Ornithology the business of his life. These drawings are not derived from books, but from life and actual personal observa- 

 tions, thus insuring certainty and correctness in all the details. It is emphatically an original work, original in design and execution. 



The material for the work is taken from notes made by Dr. Jasper in the 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. 



The work will be completed in about thirty-eix parts. Each part will contain four beautifully Colored Plates, twelve by fifteen inches, 

 and eight pages of letter-press, nicely printed on fine, heavy tinted paper, and is to be delivered in parts monthly, to subscribers only. 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE-ONE DOLLAR FOR EACH PART, PAYABLE ON DELIVERY. 



No similar work, containing so many beautiful and faithful pictures of living birds, and so much descriptive and scientific matter, at so 

 reasonable a rate, is now extant, or has ever been published in this or any other country. 



Alexander Wilson's work on Ornithology was the only standard for reference in this country up to the year 1827. In that year Mr. 

 Audubon commenced the issue of his valuable work on the Birds of America, which he completed in 1839. ^ new edition, in octavo, 

 containing no additional information of importance, was issued in the years 1840 and 1844. 



A Manual of Ornithology, relating to the land birds of the United States and Canada, was published by Mr. Nuttall in 1832 ; a volume 

 of water birds in 1834 > a second and final edition appeared in 1840. 



Professor Baird, with the co-operation of Messrs. Cassin and Lawrence, prepared, in 1858, a very valuable general work on the Birds 

 of North America. Other works have since appeared devoted to Ornithology, and more or less local ; such as Elliott's Illustrations oi 

 North American Birds, Maynard's Birds of Massachusetts, Samuel's Ornithology of the New England States, etc. It is now fourteen 

 years since the last important work on the Birds of North America was published, and about a third of a century since there has been any 

 attempt at a systematic biographical account of the same. 



Every lover of the beautiful m art and nature cannot but desire to possess a copy of the entire work. To Libraries, Colleges, Sem- 

 inaries, Educational and Scientific Institutions, Professors, Teachers, and Families, it will be of the highest conceivable value in arresting 

 the attention and in cultivating a taste for the beautiful and wonderful as exhibited in the Grand Panorama of animated nature. There is 

 hardly a person, young or old, educated or uneducated, who will not find in this work a rich and varied source of entertainment and in- 

 struction. 



We trust you will not let this opportunity pass to obtain a work that has required a large expenditure of money and many years of 

 patient labor and research. 



Very respectfully, 



JACOB H. STUDER, Publisher, 



COLUMBUS, OHIO- 



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