iv PROSPECTUS. 



more than twelve years, has enahled him to visit nearly every part of the country, while his 

 frequent intercourse with the various native tribes has been highly favourable to such an object 

 as the present undertaking. 



The work will comprise an introductory treatise on the ornithology of New Zealand, a 

 concise diagnosis of each bird in Latin and English, synoptical lists of the nomenclature, and a 

 popular history and description of all the known species — and will contain coloured illustrations, 

 by Keulemans, of all the more interesting or characteristic forms. It will be published in five 

 Parts, each containing not less than seven coloured lithographs, comprising altogether about 

 seventy figures of New-Zealand birds. 



London, January 1872. 



