PROSPECTUS. 
THE 
BEAUTIFUL AND CURIOUS BIRDS 
or THE WORLD, 
BY 
CHARLES B. CORY, F. Z. S., Etc., 
AUTHOR OF BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS, Etc. 
— 
In offering this work to the public, it is the author’s intention to pre- 
sent a series of the most beautiful and curious birds known to science. 
It will be issued in parts, the first containing two and the others three 
plates. Among the species to be illustrated are Birds of Paradise, 
Dodo, Humming Birds, Great Auk, Apteryx, etc. 
The plates will be printed on the best quality of heavy plate paper, 
21 x 27 inches, and will be finished in water colors, by competent 
artists, thus securing the greatest delicacy in shades of plumage. Each 
plate will be accompanied by appropriate text. 
The parts will be delivered in handsomely designed covers for pro- 
tection in handling. The series will include about 10 parts, to be 
issued about every three months. Only two hundred copies will be 
printed, and after that number is reached the drawings will be erased 
from the stones, thus rendering the production of a second edition 
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impossible.' 
The subscription price (to subscribers only) will be ten dollars per 
part. Parti, containing two plates, seven dollars. No subscription 
will be taken for less than the entire work. Part I is now ready for 
delivery. 
All communications should be addressed to the author, S Arlington 
Street, Boston, or to 
R. H. Porter, Esq., 6 Tenderden St ., 
Hanover Square , London , W ., 
England. 
