U.S. duty of twenty-five per cent. The present publishers state that as very few 
complete sets can be made up, it will be advisable for purchasers to make early ap- 
plication for them ; more especially as they will, before long, become as scarce and 
valuable as Mr. Gould’s other works. 
“To no portion of the globe,” says the author, “ does there attach so much inter- 
est as to that vast extent of the Old World which we designate Asia. It is there that 
all the productions of Natute essential to the well-being of man occur if the greatest 
abundance. . . . That the zoology, then, of such a country should have called 
forth the notice and study of able minds cannot be surprising ; and yet it is remark- 
able that no one has attempted a work comprehending a general history of its Orni- 
thology. This hiatus in Ornithological literature has been filled up by the present 
work on ‘ The Birds of Asia.’ ” 
“ The later works of Mr. Gould have been distinguished for the exquisite finish of 
the illustrations, but none is so remarkable in this respect as ‘The Birds of Asia.’ 
Drawn with all the fidelity which characterizes his earliest productions, the birds 
represented in this work may be seen in the romantic beauty of their native haunts, 
and many of the bright-hued flowers of the East will be found figured in these 
magnificent illustrations.’’—Vature. 
VII.GOULD, The Mammals of Australia (with Copious De- 
scriptions). iustrated with 180 plates, COLORED BY HAND. 3 vols. 
Lonpon, published by the Author, 1863 
Sotheran’s price for the above is £42—1. e., $210. This work was dedicated to the 
late: Prince Consort. 
The author’s. visit to Australia had enabled him to procure so much valuable in- 
formation respecting the habits and economy, and many new species. of the singular 
and interesting Mammalia of that country, that he determined upon publishing a 
work on the subject. 
‘In this work, the animals themselves are not only figured, but portraits of them 
from life are delineated, of which we cannot but notice one of Landseerian vigor— 
the physiognomy of the Tasmanian wolf. In the publication of such a work Mr. 
Gould confesses that he has departed from his original purpose of confining, himself 
wholly to Ornithology, and owns that, with such profusion of materials at his com- 
. mand, he was tempted to overstep his.self assigned limits. The scientific world ought 
to be grateful to him for having yielded to a temptation which, contrary to the normal 
rule, is productive of good.” —London Times. 
VIII. GOULD. The Birds of Great Britain (with Copious 
Descriptions). ustrated with 367 plates, COLORED BY HAND. 9 ( he 
5 vols. LonpDon, published by the Author, 1873.0) 
ba Published unbound at £78 15s—#. ¢., nearly $395—exclusive of twenty-five per cent. 
. 5. duty. 
The most complete book of reference to the Ornithology of Europe and one tha 
should be in every Public Library, for besides being beautifully illustrated it gives, in 
a concise manner, a complete description of each bird. Every plate is a picture in 
itself, and the birds—admirably drawn by the author, his wife Mrs. Gould, and Mrs. 
Lear—are represented in the most lifelike and characteristic attitudes, while the large 
size of the work has enabled the artist to depict almost all of the natural size. To 
the naturalist it is indispensable as a work of reference, while by the collector it will 
be found a most handsome library book, and one which for beauty of illustration 
will never be surpassed. 
“No work of greater beauty will be produced than that on which John Gould, xe- 
turning in his later life to his first love, bestowed the fullness of his energy and the 
acme of his artistic talent. We allude to his ‘ Birds of Great Britain.’ Ihe care be- 
stowed on the plates of this work was remarkable, the aim of the author being ro 
produce a picture of the birds as they appeared in their natural haunts, and especial 
pains were bestowed on the young, particularly those of the Wading Birds and 
Natators. In this fine work most of the drawings were developed and placed on 
stone by Mr. W. Hart, who also executed all the plates of the later works.’’— Nature, 
1881. 
IX. THE BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA, etc. (with Copious 
Descriptions). dustrated with 320 magnificently colored plates. 5 (0 eh 
vols. folio, hf. mor. gilt, gilt edges. 
Published unbound at £75—2. ¢., $375—exclusive of twenty-five per cent U. S. 
duty. 
elt is admitted (says Mr. Gould) that New Guinea, or Papua, and the Papuan 
Islands [the former is separated only by Torres Strait from Queensland], have the 
FINEST BIRDS IN CREATION—THE PARADISEID A2—which have many differ- 
ent decorations, and must be seen in the Drawings to understand their forms ; also 
THE FINEST PARROTS, KINGFISHERS and PITTAS.’’ 
‘“Mr. Gould has produced a series of magnificent works without a rival in the Cabi- 
nets of Science, and the gem of every rich man's library, to which, unfortunately, 
works of such artistic beauty, from their great costliness, must necessarily be con- 
fined. . . . . In taking a review of Mr. Gould’s iabors, we cannot fail to be 
impressed with the benefits conferred by them on Ornithological Science. These 
benefits are not merely confined to the introduction of new species to our knowledge, 
nor yet to the elucidation of points involved in doubt, or the extrication of species or 
groups froma maze of confusion,—they a'so result from the plan of the works them- 
selves, which const.tute,as far as they go, a complete Pictorial Museum of Ornithology, 
to which the student may refer at once, and without the trouble of searching tor te 
description of one species in one publication, and of another in a second, and so on, 
before he is able to satisfy himself as to the novelty or the contrary of the European 
Bird, Toucan, Trogon, or the rest, under examination.”—Pror. MACGILLIvRay. 
