39 J REVIEWS OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



Though mainly of local interest, this Reigate Flora is not entirely so ; for, 

 consisting exclusively of the results of the author's observation, or of that of 

 friends on whom he can depend, it will be valued by every botanist interested in 

 the geographical distribution of plants. It is beautifully printed, bound and 

 lettered (by the author), and will be followed, in due time, by a supplement, 

 containing plants collected about Reigate subsequent to the publication of the 

 present catalogue. Mr. Luxford (formerly of Reigate, but now of London, 

 printer) appears to be an ardent lover of Botany, and we are glad to find that he 

 has received considerable literary and pecuniary support in his labours. Among 

 the subscribers we notice the names of Countess Somers, Viscount Eastnor, 

 Lady Cocks, Capt. Alsager, M.P., Mr. D. Cooper, Professor Don, Mr. Francis, 

 Mr. J.E. Gray, Lady Jolliffe, Henry Kemble, Esq., M.P., Mr. G. B. Knowles, 

 Mr. J. De C. Sowerby, Mr. N. B. Ward, Mr. F. Westcott, &c. &c. The 

 volume is accompanied by a neat map, and is dedicated to the Linnrean Society. 



A History of British Birds. By Wm. Yarrell, F.L.S., V.P.Z.S. London : 

 Van Voorst, Paternoster-Row. Part vi., May, 1838. 



This new number of Mr. Yarrell's work contains the Tithys Bedstart, the 

 Chats, the Locustell, the Reedlings, the Nightingale, and the Blackcapt and 

 Garden Fauvets. Some of the wood-cuts are very excellent, but others much 

 less so. The letter-press fully sustains the character for which we have before 

 commended it. 



The Tithys Redstart, according to Robert Ball and Wm. Thompson, Esqrs., 

 occurs in Ireland, in addition to the other British localities mentioned by ornitho- 

 logists. Our author is of opinion that the Whin Chat is decidedly migratory in 

 Britain. He says : — 



" Pennant thought they did not migrate, only shifted their quarters ; but I 

 am not aware of more than two authentic instances of the Whin Chat being seen 

 here in winter. Mr. Neville Wood, in his British Song Birds, quotes the 

 following communication : — ' My correspondent, Mr. H. Barlow, of Cambridge, 

 informs me, that during the remarkably mild winter of 1833, he observed the 

 Whin Chat hopping about near some Furze-brakes in his neighbourhood. The 

 bird was seen on Jan. 15 and Feb. 20, but only on those two occasions, though 

 the Common was visited every clear day in those two months.' Among various 

 notes sent me by the Rev. Robert Holdsworth, of Brixham, is the following : — 

 ' In a path near my residence, situated at the entrance of the river Dart, in one 

 of the warmest spots in England, I found a Whin Chat dead during a very severe 

 frost, Jan. 20, 1829. Wind N.E.'"— p. 250. 



Mr. Yarrell observes, that though the Nightingale is not included by Mr. 



