PROSPECTUS 
The Birds of Florida with the Game and Water Birds of Eastern North America, 
contains the result of many years labor in the field. All of the hook is original and, as a 
somewhat peculiar plan of describing birds has been adopted, based upon the author’s very 
extended experience among the species of which he writes, we trust that this feature will 
prove useful to the student. The more advanced Ornithologist will also note many changes 
made in the arrangement of the genera of certain families; in this the author has been 
guided mainly by his anatomical studies which have occupied his attention for upwards of 
ten years. 
It has been thought advisable to include the Game and Water Birds of Eastern North 
America as there has been no complete popular work on this class since Audubon’s. We 
hope that this portion of the work will be found of value, for few, if any, among our orni¬ 
thologists have had better opportunites for observing the habits of this class of birds than 
the author, as he has been almost constantly among them for the last fifteen years. 
The author has not confined himself strictly to even the land birds of Florida for some 
of the more important northern species are given, and possibly an appendix will be added 
containing the remainder of the birds found between the Mississippi River and the Atlantic 
Ocean which are not given in the body of the work. 
A Steel plate, hand colored, accompanies every part, four being of recently discovered 
species and the others of rare birds. Full descriptions of all the nests and eggs will be 
found under the proper headings and various facts relative to the habits of many, hitherto 
little known, birds are recorded. In short, the author has endeavored to write as complete 
a history as possible of the species under consideration, in a manner which will prove 
acceptable to all who are interested in the study of Nature. 
The book will contain about four hundred pages in fifteen parts and is being issued 
monthly. 
Subscription price eighty-live cents a part, payable upon delivery. Special terms to 
the trade. • f 
Address, 
C. J. MAYNARD & Co., 
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