IV. 
Adveytisements, 
Important to all Purchasers of Ornithological Works. 
l\/r R. JOHN C. NIMMO ha\ing [jurchasecl the entire remaining stock of 
the late Henry Seebohm’s “ History of British Birds, with Coloured 
Illustrations of their Eggs,” in Four \'oluines, published at Six Guineas net, also 
his beautifully illustrated work on Plovers, Sandpipers, and Snipes, published at 
Five (juineas net, all interested in these Standard works should apply at once to 
their Booksellers, as the numbers of each are small. 
THE STANDARD WORK ON BRITISH BIRDS. 
In fouy Volumes, royal 8vo, cloth, with numerous Wood Engravings, 
and Sixty-eight Coloured Plates, price £6 6s., now £5 5s. net. 
A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS, 
WITH 
COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OF THEIR EGGS. 
To which is added the Author’s Notes on their Classification and Geographical Distribution. 
By HENRY SEEBOHM, 
Author of “ Siberia in Europe,” "Siberia in Asia,” &^c. 
NOTE.— The text of the admirable life-histories of British Birds contained in 
tliis work was in every instance the outcome of the author’s personal knowledge 
and experience, and in these respects he was probably unequalled by any other 
ornithological writer of the present century. The attention of subscribers to the 
late Lord Lilford’s “ Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands ” is 
particularly directed to the fact that the present work, as the best of its kind, is 
especially recommended as forming the natural and only fitting accompaniment to 
Lord Lilford’s magnificent series of coloured figures. 
SOIVIJE: JR je s s notices. 
“Tile illustrations are a, nearly perfect as the most careful colour-printing can produce, 
rivalling — .ind it is no slight praise — the admirable egg-pictures of llewitson, some of which 
might almost have been e.xecuted by hand; and the book is written in an easy, pleasant 
style, redolent of the tield rather than of the study. What more can we desire ? Mr. 
.Seebohm’s pictures of their eggs can hardly be surpassed.” — Saturday Review.' 
“ We unhesitatingly express our opinion that since the lime of Macgillivray no such 
original book as Mr. .Seebohm’s has been published on British ornithology; we think that 
the figures of the eggs arc by fitr the best that have yet been given.” — Nature. 
In One Volume, 4to, cloth, with numerous Wood Engravings, and Twenty-one 
Plates of Birds, Coloured by Hand, price £5 5s., now £2 12s. 6d. net. 
ONLY FIVE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED. 
The Geographical Distribution oftheCharadriidse; 
Or, The Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and their Allies. 
By HENRY SEEBOHM, 
.luhor of " Siberia in Europe,” "Siberia in Asia,” "A History of British Birds, 
with Coloured Illustrations of their Eggs,” (s‘c. 
“This is a handsome volume of more than 500 pages, and is illustrated by twenty one 
culourerl plates, drawn in Mr. Keulemans’s beat style. The book is profusely illustrated by 
woodcuts, showing the specific characters of the different species, and thesewill be invaluable 
to the student of these difficult birds. In (.act, no work has ever been so remaikably treated 
in this respect, and it will be the book of reference for the Charadriidw for many years to 
come.” — .Va/ur . 
London ; JOHR C. NIMMO, 14, King William Street, Strand. 
