348 Haworth^s Lepidoptera Britannica, 



Before concluding, we must enter a decided protest against 

 the introduction of the harsh-sounding terms which Mr. Jen- 

 nings has Anghcised from the Greek and Latin of Mr. Vigors. 

 We put it to the good taste of our author, whether he does 

 not lose much more than he gains, by calling the cuckoo a 

 Cuculid, the nightingale a Sylviad, the vulture a Vulturid, the 

 parrot a Psittacid, the swallow a Hirundinid, &c. To call a 

 pigeon or a partridge a Rasor, a woodpecker a Scansor, a 

 thrush a Dentirost, or a kingfisher a Fissirost, is to our ears 

 most grating and repulsive. The following lines, referring to 

 the nightingale and the cuckoo, require no comment : — 



" What though there no Luscinian Sylvia^s sweet throat, 

 Nor of Cuculid, Scansor* canorous, the note ; 

 Yet the warblers abound." Page 303. 



The chief merit of the book, we conceive, lies in the variety 

 of facts which the author has selected, both from his reading 

 and from his own portfolio. It cannot fail to be a useful pre- 

 sent to the young naturalist. R. I. 



Art. II. Lepidoptera Britannica. Autore A. H. Ha worth. 

 Pars IV. Londini, Wood, 428. Strand, 1828. 



We have hitherto omitted to announce the publication of 

 the fourth and concluding part of Haworth's Lepidoptera 

 Britannica^ of which the first part was given to the public so 

 long ago as 1803. The work, we happen to know, would 

 have been completed long before now, had it not been for the 

 unfortunate failure of the printer to whom the copy was con- 

 signed, and who afterwards, owing to some unaccountable 

 misunderstanding, refused either to print the remaining sheets, 

 or to give back the manuscript to the author. However, " it 

 is better late than never :" the concluding part at length made 

 its appearance in the spring of the present year, to the no 

 small satisfaction of many an entomologist, who previously 

 possessed only an imperfect portion of a very useful work. 

 The author has declined to introduce into this last part the 

 more modern alterations and discoveries in entomological 

 science, and has printed it in all respects uniformly with the 

 preceding parts, just as it was originally written many years 



* With all deference to Mr. Vigors, on whose authority, we presume, 

 Mr. Jennings calls the cuckoo a scansor, or climber, we hesitate not to affirm 

 that cuckoos do not climb, though their feet have two toes before and two 

 behind, like the parrots and creepers. — Kev. 



