260 Lesson's Trochilides. 



now all burnished gold ; " and now, we may add, as though, 

 in the words of that real naturalist, the poet Cunningham, 



" Burnish'd by the setting sun, 

 When he sets behind the hill, 



Sinking from a golden sky ; 

 Can the pencil's mimic skill 



Copy the refulgent dye?" 



We are pleased with the woodcuts exhibiting the structure 

 of the bill, beak, and tongue, &c, of the humming-birds. We 

 are, however, displeased with the sparseness of the letter- 

 press, which is made to ramble over a needless number of 

 pages. 



The sketch of the life of Linnaeus is very pleasingly written ; 

 and the portrait of him in his youth, and in a Lapland dress, 

 very striking to eyes accustomed to his likeness when, in the 

 amplitude of senility, " he wore his blooming honours thick 

 upon him." It is part of the plan of these volumes — for 

 know, reader, Sir William Jardine designs to edit a series of 

 volumes on several families of animals - — to give a series of 

 biographical sketches, with portraits, in the course of them, 

 of distinguished naturalists. In our expectancy we set down 

 Bay and White, and hope, ere long, to scan their histories, 

 and read it in their faces. 



Lesson, R. P. : Les Trochilides, ou les Colibris et les Oiseaux- 

 mouches, suivis d'un Index genera], dans lequel sont 

 decrites et classes methodiquement toutes les Races et 

 Especes du Genre Trochilus. Ouvrage orne des Planches 

 dessinees et gravees par les meilleurs Artistes. Large 8vo. 

 Paris, Bertrand. 



These words indicate a work similar in scope to the English 

 one just named; and on this account we present the title, 

 which is all we know of the work, save that six numbers, at 

 least, of it are published ; that Bailliere, in Regent Street, 

 has them ; and that the motto they bear is " Splendet ut sol." 



Various Contributors. The Entomological Magazine, pub- 

 lished in quarterly numbers, each 3s. 6d. 9 and containing 

 104 octavo pages. 



Number ii., published January 1833, contains 8 pages 

 extra. The greater half of the contributions are on system- 

 atic entomology, mainly on the Notiophili, Chalcides, and 

 Diptera. The Chalcides are treated on by F. Walker, Esq., 

 in a " Monographia Chalcidum," ^continued from the first 

 number. In the present portion of it, 61 species of Callimome 

 are described, besides other genera and species. A friend, 



