ANOTHER GREAT CHARM OF MR. GOULD’S PRODUCTIONS—one which 
from their commencement brought them into high popularity, and one which will 
ever secure for them the favor of all classes, whether ‘scientific or not—is the un- 
equalled skill displayed in the Artitupes, Groupincs, Movements and ACcEs- 
soriEs of the Birds. In these animated pictures we indeed look upon them “‘in their 
habits as they lived ’’—seeing not one, but in most cases both the Male and Female 
in various attitudes, sometimes sitting, sometimes on the wing ; as well as the TREES 
which form their homes, and the PLANTS, FLowers and INsECcTs upon which they 
feed. In the work on ‘‘ Hummine Birps,”’ the number and variety of the ORCHIDS 
introduced are additional attractions. 
I. GOULD. A Monograph of the Odontophorine, or Par- 
tridges of America (with Copious Descriptions). //ustrated with 32 
plates, COLORED BY HAND. 
Guinea and the Papuan Islands,” five volumes, and ‘‘ Supplement to the Humming 
Birds’’) is £1,000—2z. e., $5,000. This does not include the United States duty of 25 
per cent. on those volumes which have been published within the last twenty years. 
Such a set includes: ‘Birds of Europe,’’ with 449 colored plates, 5 volumes; 
“Birds of Australia,’ with the ‘“‘Supplement,’’ 681 colored plates, 8 volumes : 
‘““Mammals of Australia,” with 180 colored plates, 3 volumes; “A Century of Birds 
from the Himalayan Mountains,” with 80 colored plates, r volume; “Birds of 
Great Britain,” with 367 colored plates, 5 volumes; ‘“‘Trochilidz, or Humming 
Birds,” with 360 colored plates, 5 volumes; ‘“‘Ramphastide, or Family of Tou- 
cans,” with 52 colored plates, 1 volume; ‘‘Trogonide, or Family of Trogons,”’ 
with 50 colored plates, 1 volume; ‘ Odontophorine, or Partridges of America,*’ 
with 32 colored plates, 1 volume; ‘Birds of Asia,’”? with nearly 500 colored plates, 
7 volumes. These are published in unison with each other, in imperial folio size, 
with the plates and descriptions in the same style, so as to form in themselves a 
regular series. The publishers have lately stated that very few copies of any of Mr. 
Gould's earlier works remain for sale, and that they cannot be reproduced. ) 
Lonpon, published by the Author, 1850 soul 
Dedicated to Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte. Published unbound at £10 tos. 4 II. GOULD. A Monograph of the Ramphastide, or Family 
—1t. €., $52.50. 
“This,” says Mr. Gould, ‘‘the result of twenty years’ investigation of the subject, 
is perhaps the most periect 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. 
It is well to call attention here to the fact that upon the death of the late John 
Gould, the whole of the copyrights and stock of his published works, the copyrights 
and manuscripts of his unpublished works, his correspondence, etc., etc., were pur- 
chased by Henry Sotheran & Co. for some £60,000—2. é., $300,coo. Their price for 
a set of thirty-seven volumes of Gould’s works (exclusive of the “Birds of New 
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of Toucans (with Copious Descriptions). M/ustrated with 51 plates, 
COLORED BY HAND. 
Lonpnon, pudlished by the Author, 1854 
Second and enlarged edition, with all the plates redrawn. Dedicated to Professor 
Temminck, of Leyden. Published unbound at £12 128.—i. ¢., $63. 
The Toucans form a most curious and interesting group of American birds, and 
Mr. Gould has illustrated the different species in his usual splendid manner. When 
we mention that all the plates were executed by his late wife, we need add nothing 
to recommend them. 
_ “An edition of this work,” says the author, “ was published in 1834 ; but the exten- 
sive researches since carried on among the great Andean ranges of South America 
having led to the discovery of many additional and beautiful species belonging to this 
extraordinary group of birds, a revision of the work not only became necessary, but 
an entirely new edition was deemed imperative ; and accordingly one, with the whole 
of the former plates redrawn, was published.” 
The Toucans (family Ramphastid@) constitute a group of birds confined to the 
tropical portions of America. They are at once to be distinguished by the enormous 
. size of their bills, by the feathered character of their long and slender tongue, by the 
parrot-like arrangement of the toes (covered with broad plates), which are formed 
as close graspers, by a broad naked space around the eye, and by the richness and 
strong contrasts of the coloring of their plumage. 
