NOTICE OF THE NEW EDITION. 
iHE success which attended the Author’s first edition of * The Birds of New Zealand ’ (published in 
18 and containing comparatively few illustrations) has induced him to enter upon a more 
ambitious undertaking. Limited as that was to an impression of 500 copies, the whole edition was 
privately subscribed for ; and the drawings on the stones, from which Mr. Keulemans had produced 
the inimitable Plates, were then erased. Published at Five Guineas , the price rapidly rose till, in a 
fen jeais, a copy fetched £20 at public auction in New Zealand; then £21 in London (at the sale 
M illiam Jardines library); and, finally, in Melbourne, the extraordinary price of £37 10s. 
hin the last few months, with the new edition well in progress, a second-hand copy reached 
£j6 at Mr. Sotheby’s sale-rooms. 
The lnterva l of thirteen years since elapsed has been spent by the Author in New Zealand, 
* 1616 h ° has en i°y ed exceptional opportunities for obtaining fresh specimens and extending his 
nowledge of this remarkable avifauna. 
This work will be issued in Thirteen Parts (to Subscribers only) at the price of One Guinea each, 
Twelve Guineas for the whole if paid in advance. 
Each part (except the last) will contain facsimiles of four beautiful coloured drawings by 
Ii- Keulemans, the birds being represented as they appear in life, with accessories drawn from the 
floia of the country. Ihese will be highly finished pictures in the best style of modern art, 
coloui stones being drawn either by or under the immediate direction of Mr. Keulemans 
Specimens of these Plates, exhibited at the last Soiree of the Royal Society, were 
pronounced by * The Times ’ reviewer “ absolutely perfect.” 
b uie will be given of every form peculiar to New Zealand; and the enlarged size (Imperial 
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