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" Observationes in Plantas Rossicas, et descriptiones spe- 

 cierum novarum, auctore Ch. Steven." Eremurus caucasicus, 

 tauricus, and altai'cus are described and figured ; Asphodelus 

 inderiensis is described ; some species of Tilia are distin- 

 guished ; and a disposition of the species of the genus As- 

 tragalus into several groups, as so many genera, is proposed : 

 the species are assorted into the proposed generic groups; 

 and these are named, but not characterised. 



" Anas cucullata, nova species camtschatica, descriptione 

 et icone illustrata, auctore G. Fischer." The essential de- 

 scription is " corpore griseo fusco 5 cauda acuta, subtus albo- 

 flavescente ; fronte et vertice nigris albo-cinctis, maculaque 

 cruciata cuculli ad instar viridi-aenea." 



" Notice sur quelques Lepidopteres des Antilles, avec la 

 description de plusieurs especes nouvelles, par M. Menetries." 

 There are descriptions of fifty species, and coloured figures 

 of eight species. 



" Descriptiones Plantarum minus cognitarum Sibiriae, 

 prsesertim orientalis, quas in itinere anno 1805 et 1806, ob- 

 servavit M. F. Adams." Twenty species are described, and 

 three of them figured. 



" Diagnosis Piscium, ad genus Accipenserinum pertinen- 

 tium, praeprimis eorum qui habitant in aquis Imperii Rossici, 

 a Profess. Lovetsky." This supplies distinctive descriptions 

 of eleven species and varieties, and figures of ten of them. 



" Ueber Fossile Knochen aus den Felsenhbhlen bei Schlan- 

 genberg (Smeinogorsk), vom Prof. H. Rathke." 



" Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles de la Russie, par 

 G. Fischer de Waldheim (No. 2.)." This treatise is illus- 

 trated by five plates of figures. 



" Recherches microscopiques sur quelques Fossiles rares de 

 Podolie et de Volhynie, par A. Zborzewski." The species de- 

 scribed are also figured. They are placed under the heads 

 Microphytozoa, Micracanthozoa, Micrepizoa, Micropoly- 

 thalama. 



" Memoire sur les Puits Artesiens ou Fores, par E. Marin- 

 Darbel." Our correspondent Mr. Clarke has, in p. 11., 

 commended this memoir. 



" Lacertse Imperii Rossici variis in itineribus meis ob- 

 servatae, auctore Dre. E. Eversmann." Fourteen species 

 are described, and ten of them figured. 



Jardine, Sir Wm. 9 Bart, F.L.S.: The Natural History of 

 Game Birds. Illustrated by 31 plates, coloured. With a 

 Memoir and Portrait of Sir T. Stamford Raffles. Small 

 8vo, 172 pages. Edinburgh and London, 1834. 6s. 



