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publication (Imperial folio) has admitted, each has been figured of 
its natural size, and coloured after life. 
The Work, which precisely resembles the Authors previous pub- 
lications in size and manner of execution, is now complete in thirty- 
six Parts, containing Seventeen Plates, with descriptive letter-press, 
at the price of Three Guineas each part, with the exception of the 
Thirty-sixth, the price of which, in consequence of the large amount 
of introductory matter, is £4 12s. Thus after ten years of anxiety 
and constant labour, this the most extensive Ornithological work yet 
published has been brought to a successful termination, and now 
forms seven folio volumes, with an Introduction comprising a 
scientific arrangement of the whole, observations on the various 
genera, the range of the species, &c. 
Only 250 copies have been printed, and the drawings have been 
effaced from the stones; of these, 180 were subscribed for, the re- 
maining seventy the author proposes to issue upon the original 
terms, with this exception, that five or more Parts shall be delivered 
in the course of each year instead of four; the delivery to commence 
on the 1st of January 1849. As in the event of any of these copies 
being discontinued the remaining parts would be rendered com- 
paratively valueless, inasmuch as it would be impossible to again 
replace those taken, it will be considered that every person who 
subscribes for one of the seventy remaining copies is bound to com- 
plete it. If preferred the work may of course be taken entire, or at 
the rate of one volume in each year until complete. 
London , 20 Broad Street , Golden Square . 
December 1, 1848. 
