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A single instance is on record of this bird having been do- 

 mesticated. It builds its nest in the shape of a lengthened 

 barrel, or rather of a bag, both ends of which are left open, so 

 that its long feathers may not be injured. These long fea- 

 thers are admirably adapted, from their shape and texture, to 

 act as a rudder or counterpoise, in the violent winds to which 

 the country inhabited by the bird is subject. 



The genus Trogon, of which this bird is a member, occu- 

 pies, in my old arrangement, the first station of the ciliated 

 section of the third family, Amphibolce, which it connects with 

 Frugivora ; it has in fact a great affinity to the genus Muso- 

 phaga, from which it differs chiefly by the artificial character 

 on which it is based, and forms, in addition to the pigeons, a 

 connecting link between the Passeres and Gallince. It must 

 therefore be placed the first of the Amphibolce. 



After I had written the present article for one of the nume- 

 rous scientific journals of America, our bird, or an allied spe- 

 cies, dressed with the long plumes of the Quezalt, has been 

 figured by M. Temminck, in his PI. Col. who was not aware 

 of its being the celebrated Quezalt of central America, which 

 is certainly distinct from the Trogon pavoninus of Spix ; since 

 that bird as figured in the' Species Nova Avium Brasiliensium? 

 in smaller, destitute of crest, and the whole of the tail feathers 

 are black, it is also entirely devoid of the lengthened plumes. 

 This confusion has been already cleared up by Mr. Gould, 

 who possesses five or six species of this lovely group, to which 

 Mr. Swainson has assigned the appropriate name of Calurus. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. 1. Die Kafer der Mark Brandenburg; von Dr. W. F. 

 Erichson. 1st band, 1st abtheilung. Berlin, 8vo. 384 pp. 1837. 



2. Insecta Lapponica descripta ; a I. W. Zetterstedt. Vol. 1, 

 fasc. 1. Lipsiee, 1838. Oblong 4to. 191 pp. 



3. The Coleopterisfs Manual, containing the Lamellicorn In- 

 sects of Linnaeus and Fabricius. By the Rev. F. W, Hope, F.R.S. 

 L.S. Z.S. &c. &c. London: H. G. Bohn, 1837, 8vo. 121 pp. 

 with 4 plates. 



4. Kurzen Abriss der Entomologie, mit besonderer rucksicht 

 auf Deutschland Kafer. Von Altaian, Dr. M. Lipsise, 1837, 

 sm. 8vo. 124 pp. 



The works enumerated in the preceding list, are a few of 

 the many recent productions which have appeared upon 

 the Linnaean order of Coleopterous Insects, or, as they are 

 Vol. II.— No. 16. n. s. ij 



