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teles frontatus , from the shores of the harbour of Culebra; Pithecia 

 leucocephala and pogonias contrasted on the same plate, the latter 

 considered as new ; and P. irrorata, allied to the P. hirsuta of Spix ; 

 Lemur coronatus from Madagascar, differing from L. rufifrons, 

 Benn., in having the black streak on the head expanded between 

 the eyes and continued to the end of the nose, the under part of 

 the base of the tail being also black ; Phyllophora megalotis and 

 nigra, previously not figured, from tropical America ; Phyllostoma 

 elongatum, from tropical America, also not before figured ; Carollia 

 verrucata, from tropical America — all these are described. But we 

 have also figures of Sturnira Spectrum, Neosia nigrescens, Centurio 

 Senex from Amboina ; and Diclidurus Freyreissii, of which we pre- 

 sume the descriptions will appear in the following numbers. 



The plates in this number are well executed, superior to some of 

 the modern works in drawing, at the same time inferior to others as 

 artistical pictures ; the colouring is also careful, but wants harmony : 

 where trees or foliage are introduced, the slightest wash or tint, 

 without an attempt to finish, would harmonize with the colouring of 

 the animals and take off the rawness incident to the severe contrast 

 of the white paper, in the same way that the tint of the sky has 

 assisted to do in several of the plates. In plate 2 we see no reason 

 why the head looking round the tree should have the sole benefit of 

 the blue ; a tint upon the branch and other parts would have improved 

 the picture. Let Mr. Hawkins, in the next number, insist that 

 justice be done to his careful lithographs. The same remarks apply 

 to the other plates except 7 and 8, where nothing pictorial is at- 

 tempted, and where the figures should stand as exact representations 

 without other assistance. 



A History of the Molluscous Animals of the counties of Aberdeen, Kin- 

 cardine and Banff; to which is appended an account of the Cirripedal 

 Animals of the same District. By William Macgillivray, A.M., 

 Professor of Natural History in the University of Marischal Col- 

 lege, Aberdeen, &c. Lond. 1843. Duod. pp. 372. ^^ 



We are not going to review this volume, but we are anxious to in- 

 troduce it to the notice of our readers. The name and reputation of 

 the author led us to expect a work of interest and originality — not 

 fashioned on a mould that others had cast and approved — but bear- 

 ing the impress of a mind that could track a course of its own, and 

 much more willing to follow it than walk at greater ease in a beaten 

 path. And we have not been disappointed, for indeed we have rarely 

 spent a pleasanter hour than the one which we last night devoted 

 to the perusal of this little manual. It is the work of a good work- 

 man — the best local fauna in our language — a sure and pleasant 

 guide to the naturalists of the counties illustrated — with many a fact 

 that concerns all those who are interested in the study of the* British 

 Mollusca. It boots little to us that it contains descriptions of some 

 thirty new species — two or three of them really fine additions to our 

 native list, and which we greet heartily — but we admire these new 

 descriptions of many an old friend and acquaintance, and these ad- 



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