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many brace of the still rarer Phasianus mongolicus without the 

 slightest compunction. 



Mr. Cassin's second article upon the "birds collected in China, 

 the Loo Choo Islands, Singapore, Ceylon, and California," is accept- 

 able, as giving exact localities to many species of the correct habitat 

 of which we were not hitherto very certain. There are also nice 

 figures of Garrulax perspicillatus, Heterornis sericea, and the true 

 Ixos hcemorrhous of China. Only four birds are noticed from the 

 Loo Choo Islands, which, curiously enough, are, with one exception, 

 identified with European species : Ardea cinerea, Alcedo bengalensis, 

 Fulica chloropus, and Sterna minuta. Mr. Brevoort's notice of 

 Japanese fish, or rather, of the drawings of them made by members 

 of the Expedition (for it appears that no specimens were brought 

 home), accompanies a series of plates made from these drawings. 

 We decidedly object to the practice of describing new species of 

 fishes (or, in fact, of any animals) from drawings, particularly when 

 made, as these are confessed to have been, without a '* close attention 

 to the specific characters." But the discovery that Ditrema Tern- 

 mincki probably belongs to the singular viviparous family Embioto- 

 cidce, recently discovered in California, is certainly of great interest. 



Mr. Jay has contributed a report upon the " Shells" collected by 

 the Expedition, and Professor Asa Gray and others an essay on the 

 dried plants. 



There is also a very interesting account of the " Gulf-stream " and 

 cyclones of the Western Pacific ; and the volume closes with a fac- 

 simile of the Japanese version of the celebrated treaty of Kan-a-ga-wa, 

 the "first formal instrument of the kind ever negotiated by the 

 empire of Japan with any Christian nation." 



The Angler in the Lake District ; or Piscatory Colloquies and Fishing 

 Excursions in Westmoreland and Cumberland. By John Davy, 

 M.D., F.R.S. &c. Longmans. 



Sir Humphry Davy was the author of two delightfully desultory 

 works, one, the ' Salmonia,' and the other, ' Consolations in Travel, 

 or the Last Days of a Philosopher.' Dr. Davy, the brother of the 

 great chemist, is also an accomplished man, who has been engaged 

 in the army medical service from his early manhood. Dr. Davy 

 resided long in Ceylon and the West Indies, traversed many parts of 

 the world, and in mature age has retired to the Lake country. He 

 lives not far from another distinguished medical officer, well known to 

 our readers as the friend and companion of Sir John Franklin, who did 

 what he could, brave man ! to find that arctic hero on the dreary 

 North American coast. He is the author of the ' Fauna Boreali- 

 Americana,' and many a goodly memoir and work on Exotic Fishes ; 

 while his new edition of Yarrell's c British Fishes,' expected this year, 

 will have a scientific exactness which the worthy Waltonian disciple, 

 who wrote ' British Birds ' and * British Fishes,' never affected to 

 possess, to say nothing of its many additions. Dr. John Davy and 

 Sir John Richardson are resting (not on their oars) amid the calm 



