BY
A. H. Evans, M. A.
Clare College, Cambridge
CLOTH, 8vo., $3.50 NET
Being Volume IX of the Cambridge Natural History
| EDITED BY S. F. HARMER, Sc.D., F.R.S. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge Superintendent of the University Museum of Zoölogy |
AND A. E. SHIPLEY, M. A. Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge University Lecturer on the Morphology of Invertebrates |
Avery different volume from the exhaustive "Dictionary of Birds," by Professor Alfred Newton, which ranks as "the most valuable and interesting contribution ever made to the subject" of Ornithology, but one which may well hold its own place beside that work on the student's table or precede it on its shelves. It is rarely complete, more so than any book of its class published, and the descriptions, though brief, are clear, and, whenever necessary, illustrated by drawings made specially for this work. Prefixed to each group described is a brief summary of the Structure and Habits, a few further particulars of the same nature being subsequently added where necessary, with a statement of the main Fossil forms as yet recorded. The Scheme of Classification is of great value to the Student.
With about 150 Illustrations, Charts, Index, etc., and
an outline showing
the Scheme of Classification adopted