A HISTORY 
OF 
THE BIRDS OF EUROPE 
(INCLUDING ALL THE SPECIES INHABITING THE WESTERN PALiE- 
ARCTIC REGION). 
BY 
H. E. DRESSER, F.Z.S. &c., 
MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION, OF THE IMPERIAL SOCIETY 
OF NATURALISTS OF MOSCOW, OF THE GERMAN ORNITHOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY, CORR. MEMB. OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF 
NATURAL HISTORY, &C. &C. 
A LARGE PORTION OF THE SYNONYMY BY 
THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE, F.R.S., Pres. Z.S., &c. 
Published by the Author (by special permission) at the Office of 
the Zoological Society of London, 11 Hanover Square, W., in 
Monthly Parts, price 12s. 6d. (to subscribers 10s. 6d.), each Part 
containing eight hand-coloured Plates and about fifty pages of 
letterpress. The complete work will contain illustrations of about 
600 Species, and will consist of about seventy Parts, exclusive of 
the General Index, Introduction, Key to Genera and Species, and 
General Review of the subject, which will be issued separately 
when the mam portion of the work is completed. 
The Author has so far collected and arranged his material that 
he is enabled to estimate that the work will be completed early in 
1878, Previous to this the subscription list will be closed, after 
which the price of the work will be 12s. 6d. per Part. 
The Author undertakes to bind provisionally, in cloth, in 
Volumes of twelve Parts each, at 5s. per volume, or to supply 
provisional cloth cases at 2s. 6d. each. 
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have it bound, properly arranged and paged; and a Price-list, 
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time be issued to Subscribers. All communications to be addressed 
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