46S Analytical Notices of Books, 



papers, in which was contained so much important informatioiiy 

 have been collected into a volume, and have thus been rendered 

 more easily accessible. Devoted expressly to the correction and 

 revision of the Nomenclature of the American Ornithology, its 

 leading object is io place that standard work on a level with the 

 actual state of science. With this view the Synonymy is enlarged 

 and continued, so as to embrace the latest observations. Its ac- 

 quisition is consequently essential to the possessors of the original 

 work. To the general ornithologist it will also be desirable on 

 account of the numerous and just observations with which it is in- 

 terspersed, relative to the arrangement of birds, and to the value 

 of the groups into which they have been divided. 



Atlas des Oiseaux d* Europe, pour servir de complement au Manuel 

 d^Ornithologie de M, Temminck : par J. C. Werneii, Peintre 

 d^Histoire Naturelle, 8tJo. Livraisons i — v, Paris, 18'26. 



The commencement of a cheap, but not inelegant, collection of 

 lithographic figures, of the whole of the European Birds described 

 by M. Temminck. As applied to ornithological subjects litho- 

 graphy has not yet attained that neatness and perfectness of deli- 

 neation, with which it depicts the objects of some other branches 

 of Zoology, especially shells. Uncoloured, the figures of M. 

 Werner would appear but indifferent ; but, with the finish given 

 to them by the colourer, they are quite sufiicient to enable the 

 student to distinguish species. The plates are published in the 

 order pursued in the work which they are intended to illustrate* 

 The first five numbers extend to page 112 of the Manuel d^Orni- 

 ihologie, and comprehend 49 figures, each on a separate page, 

 besides two which are devoted to skeletons of birds of the first two 

 Orders, the Predaceous and the Omnivorous. It will be desira- 

 ble, we think, to give also with each Order, one or more addi- 

 tional plates, for the developement of the characters of the genera 

 contained in it. 



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