GOULD. A Monograph of the Odontophorine, or Par- 
tridges of America (with Copious Descriptions). ustrated with 32 
plates, COLORED BY HAND. 
Lonpvon, published by the Author, 1850 
Dedicated to Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte. Published unbound at £10 10s. 
—1. €., $52.50. 
“This,” says Mr. Gould, ‘‘the result of twenty years’ investigation of the subject, 
is perhaps the most perfect as well as the most important of the Author’s Ornitho- 
logical Monographs.”’ : 
He further says: ‘‘The interest which attaches to this work is threefold. First, it 
displays, even to the most unpracticed eye, the broad distinction which subsists 
between the Partridges of America and those of Europe; secondly, the species are 
all remarkable for the elegance of their forms and for the chaste beauty of their color- 
ing ; and thirdly, at no distant date these birds will be regarded in America, as our 
partridges in Europe are, as game, and perhaps preserved by law—their flesh being 
as delicate for the table as that of our ordinary bird, from which, however, they differ 
considerably in the structure of the beak, and in general habits and economy.” 
With regard to the coLorine of the plates, some have supposed that it has been 
produced by a mechanical process or by chromo-lithography. So far from this being 
the case, every sky, with its varied tints, and every feather of each bird, has been 
COLORED under the most careful superintendence, by HaND. The artists and colorers 
employed by Mr. Gould worked under the immediate direction of Mr. W. Hart, the 
celebrated English water colorist and painter of birds, who has also supervised the 
volume recently completed, and issued for the first time in 1887. 
1 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 
OF PHILADELPHIA, Proceedings 
of the. From the Commencement, 
March, 1841, to 1872, inclusive. TIllus- 
trated. 24 vols., 8vo, half calf. Phila- 
delphia. $75.00 
* Very scarce. Uniformly bound. | 
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