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Anon. : The Zoological Magazine, or Journal of Natural 

 History. Published on the first of every month. 8vo, 

 32 pages with cuts. Price 6d. 



From a sight of numbers i. ii. and hi., we can say this is a 

 respectable work, and very cheap. 



Professor Dewkurst, F.W.S. F.L.V.S., &c, and Uenry 

 Braddon, Esq. : The Veterinary -Examiner, or Monthly 

 Record of Physiology, Pathology, Agriculture, and Na- 

 tural History. Published monthly; each number price Is., 

 and containing 40 octavo pages, and occasional engravings. 



Of this work three numbers are published, and we have 

 seen the first and third. The anatomy of animals seems its 

 leading feature, and it includes the anatomy of other animals 

 besides the horse, and those of agriculture. We are too un- 

 familiar with anatomy to opine on the merits of the work ; 

 but deem it likely enough to be useful to many of our readers, 

 to justify our here giving its title, to apprize them of its 

 existence. 



Jardine, Sir Wm. : The Natural History of Humming- Birds, 

 Vol. I., with 35 Plates, engraved on steel by W. H. Lizars; 

 and coloured from Nature in the most careful Manner ; with 

 Descriptions, and numerous Woodcuts, exhibiting the Ana- 

 tomy of the Birds, their Peculiarities of Structure, &c. To 

 the volume are prefixed a portrait of Linnaeus, and a 

 sketch of his life, written expressly for the work. Fools- 

 cap 8vo. London and Edinburgh, 1833. 6s. 



Welcome, indeed, should be every attempt to teach us 

 something of the charms, the habits, and the history of these 

 most beautiful of all the beautiful beings with which our 

 goodly dwelling-place, the earth, is bedecked and adorned. 

 Perilous, however, must be the attempt to do this, in any 

 person who has not lived, and moved, and had his being 

 amongst these sprightly children of the air, in their native 

 places of resort and action. This is not our case ; and we, 

 in consequence, will not pretend to take the height, breadth, 

 and depth of the author's book in this relation. We may 

 say that the notices are expressed with an ease and amiable- 

 ness of feeling which very well comport with the sprightly 

 graceful creatures spoken on. The pictures are said to make 

 the book cheap at its price. Excessively difficult, however, 

 yea, even impossible, must it be to exhibit, by human art, the 

 brilliant blaze of metallic lustre which these birds display, 

 and this in various colours : to use the words of Mr. Waterton 

 (Vol. V. p. 475.), " now a ruby, now a topaz, now an emerald, 



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