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Bibliographical Notice. 

 To be published by subscription, the Genera of Birds ; comprising their 

 Generic Characters, a notice of the Habits of each Genus, and an 

 extensive List of Species, referred to their several Genera. By 

 George Robert Gray, Senior Assistant of the Zoological Depart- 

 ment, British Museum, and author of the ' List of the Genera of 

 Birds,' &c. Illustrated with Figures by David William Mitchell. 



The Illustrations of this work, amounting to about 200 plates, will 

 be from the pencil of the author's colleague, Mr. Mitchell ; whose 

 knowledge of the science, and zealous wish to facilitate its acquire- 

 ment by others, will guarantee the faithful and spirited performance 

 of his department of the work. 



It is proposed to commence the publication as soon as 100 sub- 

 scribers are obtained, in Monthly Parts, each Part to consist of 

 Four imperial- quarto coloured plates, and accompanying letter- 

 press ; giving the generic characters, short remarks on the habits, 

 and a list of species of each genus as complete as possible. Each 

 plate will contain, as far as practicable, the characters of all the 

 groups of an entire subfamily, illustrated by a complete figure of 

 a species not hitherto figured ; or, in the few cases where this is 

 not to be obtained, of one that has only been given in some ex- 

 pensive work, accompanied with numerous details of heads, bills, 

 wings and feet of the other genera, as the case may require, for 

 pointing out their distinguishing characters. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR MARCH 1843. 



Chiswick. — March 1. Clear : some snow-flakes : frosty. 2, 3. Clear and frosty : 

 fine. 4. Cloudy and fine : frosty at night. 5. Sharp frost : cloudy. 6. Cloudy : 

 clear and frosty at night. 7. Frosty and foggy : cold with easterly haze. 8. 

 Light clouds : fine : frosty. 9. Dry haze. 10. Hazy: overcast. 11. Slight 

 haze. 12. Uniformly overcast. 13. Clear: cloudy and fine. 14. Fine. 15. 

 Hazy : cloudy and fine. 16. Hazy and mild : clear and fine. 17, 18. Mornings 

 foggy, clear and fine. 19. Foggy: fine. 20. Foggy: very fine: rain. 21,22. 

 Very fine. 23. Cloudy and mild. 24. Hazy : fine. 25. Dry and windy. 



26. Cold and dry. 27,28. Cloudy and cold. 29. Dry cold haze. 30,31. 

 Overcast and fine. 



Boston. — March 1. Fine : snow early a if* : rain p.m. 2, 3. Fine. 4. Cloudy. 

 5. Fine. 6. Cloudy. 7. Fine. 8—10. Cloudy. 11. Fine. 12. Cloudy. 

 13. Fine. 14. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 15. Fine : rain early a.m. 16. Cloudy. 

 17,18. Fine. 19. Cloudy. 20. Fine. 21. Fine: rain early a.m. 22. Rain: 

 rain early a.m. 23,24. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 25. Windy. 26. Stormy. 



27, 28. Windy. 29, 30. Fine. 31. Cloudy. 



Sandwich Manse, Orkney. — March 1. Snow-showers: frost. 2 — 5. Cloudy: 

 thaw. 6. Clear : aurora. 7, 8. Clear : hoar-frost : aurora. 9. Clear : cloudy. 

 10. Cloudy: damp. 11. Damp. 12. Showers. 13. Snow : showers. 14. 

 Snowing: clear. 15. Snow: showers: clear. 16. Cloudy: snow: rain. 17. 

 Rain : drizzle. 18. Showers: clear : aurora. 19. Cloudy. 20. Cloudy : damp. 

 21,22. Damp. 23. Damp: showers : damp. 24. Damp. 25—29. Bright: 

 clear. 30. Cloudy : rain. 31. Drizzle: rain. 



Applegarth Mnnse, Dumfriesshire. — March 1 — 4. Frost : fair. 5. Slight frost : 

 thaw p.m. 6. Thaw and drizzle. 7. Fair and fine : spring day. 8. Frost. 

 9. Frost : dull p.m. 10. Rain. 11. Very damp. 12. Wet a.m. : cleared up. 

 13. Fair and fine: drizzle. 14. Frost: threatening. 15. Frost: fine. 16. 

 Drizzle. 17. Moist, but not rain. 18 — 20. Fair and fine. 21. Fair and fine : 

 shower p.m. 22. Wet a.m. : cleared. 23, 24. Wet a.m. 25, 26. Fair. 27 — 

 '^9. Fair : slight frost. 30. Heavy rain : thunder. 31. Rain a.m. 



