Eytorts Barer Species of British Birds. 275. 



the plot further here. The evidence of the animals named is 

 the moral of the work ; a remembrancer to man of 



. " the persecution and the pain 

 That" he "inflicts on all inferior kinds, 

 Regardless of their plaints." 



Cowper's Tash> book vi. 



This tone of crimination in the work detracts from the ely- 

 sium-like ideas to which the title had bespoken the expecta- 

 tion ; but one may esteem the author's purpose not the less : 

 one does so. 



Eyton, T. C. : A History of the Rarer Species of British 

 Birds. Intended as a Supplement to the History of Bri- 

 tish Birds by the late Thomas Bewick. " In two sizes, 

 royal 8vo, and demy 8vo, to correspond with " Bewick's 

 work. 180 pages, and numerous woodcuts, executed by 

 Mr. Mark, Wellington, Shropshire; the latter consisting 

 of more than 40 figures of 40 kinds of birds, and of vi- 

 gnettes. Price of the demy 8vo size, 1 0s. 6d. 



"• The author has stated that the principal objects that he 

 had in producing this work are two : one, to complete, as far 

 as lay in his power, the series of woodcuts of British birds 

 begun by the late Thomas Bewick, thus enabling those to 

 whom it may not be convenient to purchase more splendid, 

 but more expensive, illustrations, to possess, at a moderate 

 cost, a series of woodcuts, accompanied with descriptions of 

 the British birds, from which they will be able to recognise 

 any that may, at any time, fall into their hands ; the other, 

 to present a complete systematic catalogue of British birds, 

 with the synonymes of the principal authors in ornithology, 

 and a rectification of Bewick's names, in as concise and simple 

 a form as possible. 



The author " possesses nearly a perfect collection of Bri- 

 tish birds, and has " had " the assistance of some eminent 

 naturalists in his undertaking." 



The work has been published in three portions. The 

 kinds figured and described in the first portion are named in 

 our p. 109., except the black redstart, omitted. The kinds 

 figured and described in the second and third portions are, 

 the cinereous shearwater, dusky shearwater, pomarine skua, 

 arctic jager, Iceland gull, little gull, Sabine's xeme, Caspian 

 tern, arctic tern, black noddy, hooded merganser, red-crested 

 pochard, western duck, surf duck, harlequin duck, Bewick's 

 swan, Tengmalm's owl; White's thrush, shot by the Earl of 

 Malmsbury ; Lapland bunting, gull-billed tern, rock grous ; 

 and a hybrid kind of bird, the offspring of the male pheasant 



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