Cassell's Book of Birds

Abstract

PERSONS wishing to be misinformed on the subject of Ornithology should obtain and read the “Book of Birds ”now in course of publication by Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, and recommended by them to “everyone who wishes to know all that is known about birds.“The advertisement whence these words are quoted also tells us that the work, when completed, is to contain “upwards of 400 engravings, embracing every species of birds known to exist; ”but as on a moderate computation some 12,000 species of birds have been described, it is pretty clear that to fulfil that promise each engraving should represent 30 species or thereabouts. The most cursory inspection of the portion published (and we have the fourteenth part lying before us) will show that nothing of the kind has been done, and that many groups are left without an illustration at all.

Cassell's Book of Birds.

Translated and adapted from the text of the eminent German Naturalist, Dr. Brehm, by Thomas Rymer Jones., Professor of Natural History and Comparative Anatomy in King's College, London. 400 woodcuts and coloured plates. Parts I.—XIV. (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.)