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On the Ist of July will be published, price 2s. 6d. Part I. ofa 
HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
By Wiciiam YARRELL, F.L.S., Secretary to the Zoological Society. 
This work will be completed in 2 vols. 8vo.; will contain a greater number 
of British Birds than has yet been included in any work on the same subject ; 
| will be illustrated by an Engraving of each Species, executed on Wood by 
Thompson, from drawings made in every practicable instance from living 
examples of the Birds; and additionally embellished by numerous pictorial 
and other illustrative Vignettes. 
On the 2d of October will be published, price 2s. 6d. Part 1. of a 
HISTORY OF BRITISH REPTILES. 
By Tuomas Be tu, F.R:S., Professor of Zoology, in King’s College, London. 
This work will be completed in 1 thin vol. 8vo.; will contain an Elucidation 
of the Habits, a distinctive description of the Species, their geographical 
distribution, and the history of the transformation of all the amphibious 
forms of this interesting; though small, and but little-known group of vertebrate 
animals. In addition to a figure of each Species, the work will contain many 
Illustrations of Structure, Developement, and Transformation. 
On the Ist of August will be completed, in 1 vol. 8vo., price 28s. 
Part I to IX. being now ready, price 2s. 6d. each. 
A HISTORY OF BRITISH QUADRUPEDS. 
By THomas BE ut, F.R.S., Professor of Zoology, in King’s College, London. 
illustrated by a figure of each subject, engraved in the first style of the art 
on wood, of every British animal, together with numerous Vignette tail-pieces. 
“* Whether the scientific details, the clear, skilful, and popular manner in 
| which the descriptive materials are worked up be regarded, or attention given 
to the decorative department—the wood-cuts, the vignettes, and the topo- 
graphy—both the general reader, and the naturalist, will find abundant mate- 
rials for the highest gratification. ANALYST. 
In 2 vols. 8vo. price 2/. 8s. Illustrated by nearly 400 beautiful Wood-cuts. 
A HISTORY OF BRITISH FISHES. 
By WItuiAM YARRELL, F.L.S., Secretary to the Zoological Society. 
This work, which contains a complete history of the Ichthyology of Great 
Britain, including many species never before noticed, is embellished with 240 
Figures of FisHEs, mostly taken from the objects themselves, and 145 
ILLUSTRATIVE VIGNETTES, drawn and engraved by the most eminent Artists, 
and no pains have been spared to render it worthy of public estimation. 
“ The first of these hand-books—“ books that we may take to the fire with 
us,” and within the power of almost every reader’s purse—is now finished ; 
and we have in Mr. Yarrell’s “ Natural History of British Fishes,’ an earnest 
of the able execution of the Series, and of the elegant and reasonable form in 
which they are to be presented to the public. We hail the appearance of this 
book as the dawn of a new era in the Natural History of England.” 
QUARTERLY REVIEW, April. 
A few copies of the above four Works may also be had in royal 8vo., 
and as each is complete only, in imperial 8vo. 
In post 8vo. price 10s. 6d. cloth, In post 8vo. with 26 Illustrations, 
AN ANGLER’S RAMBLES. price 12s. 
By Epwarp Jessg, F.L.S. BEAUTIES of the COUNTRY; 
Author of “ Gleanings in Natural His- OR, DESCRIPTIONS OF » 
tory.” Contents:—Thames Fishing—| RURAL CUSTOMS, OBJECTS, 
Trolling in Staffordshire—Perch Fish- SCENERY, anp SEASONS. 
ing.club—T wo Days’ Fly-fishing on the By Tuomas MI.Lter, 
Test — Luckford Fishing-club —Gray-| Author of “A Day in the Woods.” 
ling Fishing—A Visit to Oxford—The | “ A capital guide to the pleasures of; 
Country Clergyman, ‘the country.”—SPECTATOR. 
JOHN VAN VOORST, 1, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 
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