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No, III. March], 1833. 



Published on the First of every Month. 



PRICE SIXPENCE. 



THE ZOOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



OR 



JOURNAL OF N 



RAL HISTORY. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



The Polar Bear . . . 65 



Baron Humboldt's Description of 



the Mode of catching the Gym- 



notus, or Electrical Eel 76 



Nightingales in Russia 80 



The Labiated Bear 81 



Useful Rat 85 



Singular Audacity of a Fish .... 80 



Animals and Birds on the Plains 



of Camdeboo . 86 



Page 



88 



Description v)f Animals in Brazil 

 Account of the Red -throated Hum- 

 ming Bird 89 



Observations on some Mollusca 

 and Zoophytes, regarded as the 

 Causes of the Phosphorescence 



of the .Sea . 92 



The Zoological Gardens 95 



Zoologist's Calendar for March . . 96 



LONDON: 



WHITTAKER, TREACHER, AND Co. 



AVE MARIA LANE. 



RICHARD TAYLOR, KRINTFR, 



TrED LIOV COURTi Ff.KKT STRFCT. 



