VI 
ORIGINAL PROSPECTUS. 
The work will comprise an introductory treatise on the ornithology of New Zealand, 
diagnosis of each bird in Latin and English, synoptical lists of the nomenclature and a popular 
history and description of all the known species-and will contain coloured dlustrattons, y 
Keulemans, of all the more interesting or characteristic forms. It wiU be publis e m ve ai s, 
each containing not less than seven coloured lithographs, comprising altogether about seventy figures 
of New-Zealand birds. 
London, January 1872. 
