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REVIEWS. 



Art. L Catalogue of Works on Natural History , lately publisked^ 

 ivith some Notice of those considered the most interesting to British 

 Naturalists, 



SWAINSON, Wm., F.R.S., L.S., A.C.G. : Ornithological Draw- 

 ings; Part L, The Birds of Brazil* 8vo, 13 plates. Plain, 

 75.; coloured, 105. 6d.; double plates, ]55> 

 Mr. Swainson's name stands so deservedly high, both as an 

 ornithologist and an artist, that, in introducing this splendid 

 work to the notice of our readers, we shall simply say that we 

 consider it in every respect worthy of its author. Farther 

 commendation we feel would be superfluous. Mr. Swainson 

 has, with great judgment, abandoned the expensive and cum- 

 brous plan of publishing in folio or quarto, and adopted that 

 of royal 8vo. He is thus enabled to give plates at a lower 

 price than has ever previously been done. The numbers are to 

 be published quarterly ; and four of them, containing toge- 

 ther fifty exquisitely drawn and beautifully coloured plates, 

 are to constitute a volume, for which the price is 2/. 2s. The 

 first series, of which No. I. is before us, is to contain the 

 birds of Brazil ; and we are delighted to see Mr. Swainson 

 thus erecting a monument to bear witness of his arduous and 

 praiseworthy researches in that interesting and beautiful 

 country. We are but stay-at-homes ; and we delight in that 

 exquisite art which can thus bring the tropics in all their glo- 

 rious panoply of charms palpably and visibly before us, with- 

 out the slightest apprehension from the crushing folds of boa 

 constrictors, or the savage and insatiable cruelty of jaguars. 

 — JS. 



Wells, Rev. Algernon, of Coggeshall, Essex : On Animal 

 Instinct : a Lecture delivered before the Members of the 

 Mechanics' Institute, Colchester, on Monday Evening, 

 Nov. 25. 1833, and published by their Request. Pam- 

 phlet, 8vo, 40 pages. Fenton, Colchester; Longman, Lon- 

 don ; 1834. 



This is so succinct and excellent a treatise on the subject, 

 that an analysis of the lecture would induce the necessity of 

 reprinting much of it, for which we have not space. Every 

 naturalist should possess himself of a copy. The price cannot 

 be great. It may be, that not much that is new is taught us in 



