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Iiennie, James, M.A.A.L.S. (Professor of Zoology, King's 

 College, London, Author of Insect Architecture, &c.) Editor: 

 The Field Naturalist's Magazine, and Review of Animals, 

 Plants, Minerals, the Structure of the Earth, and Appear- 

 ances of the Sky. In monthly 8vo Numbers ; each con- 

 taining 48 pages, with cuts. London, 1833. Is. 



Of this work, only the second number, for February, has 

 been sent us. The facts fresh from the " fields" which it 

 contains occupy a much smaller portion of its space than does 

 the information translated and transcribed into it from books. 

 The quality and quantity of both kinds are, however, such as 

 to render the number not dear at a shilling. 



Gould, John, F. L. S. : The Birds of Europe ; dedicated, by 

 permission, to the President and Council of the Zoological 

 Society of London. In Parts, imperial folio, each con- 

 taining 20 plates. 21. 10s. plain ; 31. 3s. coloured. 



Parts 2. and 3. of Mr. Gould's Birds of Europe are 

 now before us, and bear evident proof of increasing excel- 

 lence as the numbers proceed. The first part of this 

 work, which we noticed last year (Vol. V. p. 535.), gave 

 promise of improvement from practice ; and the author, and 

 those associated with him in the different departments of the 

 undertaking, have fully realised our expectations. The figures, 

 beautiful and varied, are drawn with great truth and know- 

 ledge of the subjects, the colouring is natural, and the dif- 

 ferent landscapes, with their rocks, water, trees, and plants, 

 are put in with good taste and great effect. Independently 

 of the high pictorial merit this work exhibits, it is not 

 less interesting and valuable to the admirer of the endless 

 productions of nature for the novelties, European as well as 

 British, with which each succeeding portion is enriched. 

 The azure-winged magpie, figured with great delicacy and 

 beauty, has been made known as a European bird by Wagler, 

 but is not included in the Manuel of Temminck. This bird 

 is found in Spain, where it frequents bushes and willow 

 groves, and, like our own common species, is remarkable for 

 its impudence and clamour. The blue-throated warbler and 

 the white-bellied swift are recent additions to our British 

 catalogue ; and a new species of jRegulus, lately discovered 

 in Cambridgeshire by the Rev Mr. Jenyns, which very closely 

 resembles our golden-crested wren, is also figured, and the 

 differential characters rendered more obvious by the judicious 

 placing of both birds on the same plate. The figures of the 

 wagtails are excellent, exhibiting the characteristic elegance 



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