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, 

 5s. per 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. 



36, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. 



TO PRIVATE MUSEUMS. 



L^OB SALE, the following Collections in good condition, named and 

 -*- arranged in Cabinets, at about one quarter value : — 



1. 40-drawer Cabinet and about 7000 British Lepidoptera — 1000 



Species. Price £50. (List value of specimens alone, over £200.) 



2. 36-drawer Cabinet — 5500 British Lepidoptera — 850 Species. 



Price £10. (List value of specimens over £150.) 



3. 24-drawer Cabinet — 4000 British Lepidoptera — 700 Species. 

 £30. (List value over £100.) 



4. 40-drawer Cabinet— 17,000 British Coleoptera— over 2000 



Species. Neatly carded. £75. (List price over £300.) 

 Also Collection of 100 different Life-histories of British Lepidoptera, 

 showing- Eggs, Larvae mounted on Food-plant, Pupa?, and Perfect Insects, 

 each in separate glazed case. These comprise some of our most curious and 

 beautiful species, a particularly interesting and instructive series. Price 

 £10. A large 68-drawer Oak Insect Cabinet, extra large drawers, glazed 

 lifting frames, glass panel doors. £18 (cost double). Particulars from — 



A. FORD, 36, Irving Road, Bournemouth, Hants. 



Cloth, gilt, -price 2s. Qd. Postage 2d. Second Edition. 



FAMILIAR INDIAN BIRDS 



BY 



GORDON DALGLIESH. 



Illustrated by Half-tone Blocks from the Drawings of 

 R. H. BUNTING and H. B. NEILSON. 



THE INSECT HUNTER'S COMPANION. Instiuc- 

 tions for collecting and preserving Butterflies and Moths, Beetles, Bees, 

 Flies, &c. By the Rev. Joseph Greene, M.A. — Fifth Edition, revised and 

 extended by A. B. Farn. The Chapter on Coleoptera by Edward Newman; on 

 Hymenoptera by Frederick Smith ; on Breeding Gall-flies by Edward A. Fitch. 

 Where to find moths and butterflies; how to catch ; how to bring home without 

 injury ; how to kill ; how to set ; how to find the caterpillars ; how to manage ; 

 how to feed; how to breed the perfect insects; and numerous similar subjects. 

 Price Is. 6d., postage 2d. 



London: WEST, NEWMAN dc CO., 54, Hatton Garden, E.C. 



