IV. 
Advertisements. 
Nov., 1897. 
SECOND EDITION . 
IN SHILLING MONTHLY PARTS. 
AN ILLUSTRATED 
MANUAL OF BRITISH BIRDS 
HY 
HOWARD SAUNDERS, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 
IV/r ESSRS. GURNEY & JACKSON beg to announce that the 
iVl First Part of the Second Edition of the above-named Work 
will be published on the ist of November, 1897 ; the whole to 
be completed in Twenty Monthly Parts, at the price of One 
Shilling each. 
As before, this Manual will be a volume of about 800 
pages, on the plan of devoting two pages — inclusive of the illus- 
tration — to each species ; the letterpress containing concise descrip- 
tions of the geographical distribution, habits, nesting, eggs, plumage, 
&c. : in fact as much digested and carefully compressed information 
as the space at disposal will allow. 
In order to render the book useful for reference when 
travelling, especial care will be taken to point out the distinctive 
characters of closely-allied Continental and other species which 
have not yet visited the British Islands. 
Many of the Woodcuts are still the same as those in tlit 
4th Edition of ‘Yarrell’s British Birds,’ but new ones will be giveli 
of nearly every species admitted to the British List. The total 
number of these is now close upon 380, and there will be aboiit 
375 Illustrations; many of them substitutes for those considered 
unsatisfactory. Altogether there will be about Thirty fresh Illus- 
trations and Twelve new Articles, while a very large portion of 
the entire work will be re-written in order to bring it up to date. 
As before, the volume will contain 3 Coloured Maps : one 
of them embodying the latest discoveries in the circumpolar regions. 
GURNEY & JACKSON, 1, PATERNOSTER ROW. 
(Successprs to Mr. VAN VOORST.) 
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