January, 1884. 
GEORGE BELL & SONS’ 
LIST OF WORKS 
ON 
BOTANY & NATURAL HISTORY, 
THE LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
T his uniform series of Works on the yarious branches of Natural History 
has attained a high reputation, both for the low prices at which 
they are published and the general excellence with which they are produced 
They forin collectively a Standard Set of Works on the different subjects which 
they illustrate, and deserve the attention of all who study this branch of science 
for their faithful illustrations and accuracy of description; the plates being 
carefully executed by accomplished artists, and the authorship entrusted to writers 
of acknowledged merit. Indeed no higher testimony can be borne to their 
value than the fact that the late Prince Consort (himself an able student of 
Natural History) so highly esteemed those which were published during_ his life- 
time that he purchased copies of them for presentation to public institutions. 
New Edition, with Additions. 
Debicated by Peemission to Hee Most Gkacious Majesty the Queen. 
A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
By the Rev. P. 0. Moesjs, B. A., Member of the Ashmolean Society. Illus- 
trated with 865 coloured Engravings. Six Yolumcs, super-royal 8yo., 
£6 6s. 
In this work the author has amassed information from every reliable source, and 
in addition to necessary scientific details, he has interspersed througdiout liis pages 
a vast fund of anecdotes, illustrative of the marvellous instincts and peculiar habits 
of the feathered inhabitants of pur land, and has thus made bis work M once 
entertaining and instractive, and in. the widest sense a ‘ History of British Bir . 
New Edition, Enlarged. 
A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE NESTS AND EGGS OF 
BRITISH BIRDS. By the Rbv. E. O. Moueis, B.A. Illustrated with 
233 coloured Plates. In Three Volumes, snpor-royal 8vo., £3 3s. 
Designed as a supplement to the ‘ History of British Birds, this work gives the 
fullest information respecting the localities and construction of their nests the 
number and peculiarities of their eggs, and all the instruction requisite for deter- 
mining to what species they belong. Each egg is figured and mmutely described, 
and a number of nests are accurately drawn from specimens. 
