A CAGS AND CHAMBER BIRD.

BY WILLIAM KIDD, OF HAMMERSMITH.

ILLUSTRATED BY N. WHITTOCK.

There is in life no blessing like AFFECTION;
Life hath nought else that may supply its place.

L. E. L

ABON

I O N DON:
GROOMBRIDGE & SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW,

AND, BY ORDER, OF ALL BOOKSELLERS.

184. 6.88.

KIDD'S SONG-BIRDS, ILLUSTRATED.

(From the Weekly Chronicle.) MR. KIDD'S “TREATISES ON SONG-BIRDS,”

Originally published in the Gardeners' Chronicle,

and since materially added to in the columns of his Own delightful JOURNAL, must not for one moment be confounded with the compiled books on Birds which have heretofore held sway with the public. They are perfectly original, both in style and manner. Being the practical result of some thirty years' experience, they must be regarded as first-rate authority-quite upsetting many of the received rules and regulations for the treatment of the feathered tribes, which have been so blindly followed for the last half century. We should add, that there is a freshness about Mr. KIDD's writings which invests them with a perpetual interest.

VOL. I.--THE CANARY.

To be followed by
THE NIGHTINGALE.

THE WOODLARK.
THE BLACKCAP.

THE TITLARK.
THE THRUSH.

THE LINNET.
THE BLACKBIRD.

THE GOLDFINCH.
THE SKYLARK.

THE BULLFINCH.
And other of our Choicest Songsters.

THE AVIARY AND ITS OCCUPANTS,

Will form one of the early Volumes.

E HARDLY NEED REMARK, that this is not our first appearance before the Public as a Writer, or

as an historian of the feathered race. We do not therefore feel the mauvaise honte peculiar to a young author, uncertain of what reception he may meet with from the World at large.

It was in the pages of the Gardeners' Chronicle that our “Treatises on Song-Birds and Natural History” first saw the light. Week after week we continued to write ; and finding the subject more than usually attractive—the Public Press sounding our fame in all lands—the papers from our pen extended, -not over weeks and months, but over years. And yet how short the whole time appeared !

During this interval, much attention both at home and abroad was directed to the mass of curious information and anecdotal facts— connected with birds in particular, that had thus accumulated; and inquiries out of number were made as to whether the “ Treatises on Song-Birds” would be issued in a separate form.

It was not possible at the time, to decide