180 Malherbe Alf. Monographie des Picides, ou Histoire 
Naturelle des Picides, Picuminés, Yuncinjês ou Tor- 
cols, comprenant l’Origine mythologique, les Moeurs, les 
Migrations, la Physiologie, la Répartition géographique, les 
Systèmes de Classification ; la Synonymie, la Description, 
et 1 Histoire de chaque Espece. 121 carefully colored plates 
of every variety of Woodpechers , containing many hundred 
specimens. 2 vols Text, 2 vols Plates : 4 vols. Impérial folio, 
half crimson morocco , gilt and gilt edges. 
Published in parts at 450 francs. Metz, 1861-3 
“ O ni y 100 copies were printed, at the private expense of the Autlior, who lias 
spent 100,000 francs in raising this Monument of Science. What Gould lias 
done for the Humming-Birds, M. Malherbe lias done for the Woodpeckers. 
Naturalists, Public Libraries, and Sportsmen will be glad to secure a copy of 
this grand work, now entirely out of print.” 
