66 Notices and Anafyses. 



representations of the fore and hind feet of the great orang-oirtang; 

 of Sumatra, of the death and capture of which so striking an account 

 was given, some time ago, by Dr Clarke Abel. Models of these and 

 other parts of that gigantic animal, executed with all the accuracy 

 which distinguishes the works of Eastern art, having been transmitted 

 to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, by George Swinton, Esq. Secre- 

 tary to the Indian Government, our Author, with the permission of 

 the Council of that learned body, has conferred a service on the science 

 of Natural History, by extending a knowledge of so extraordinary a 

 species, through the medium of his ample plates. These are 

 engraved and coloured with the usual accuracy, and exhibit the exact 

 dimensions of life. 



The great auk, {alca impennis,) one of the rarest and most remarkable 

 of the British birds, is also figured in this Number, from a specimen 

 obtained by Mr Bullock, in Papa Westra, and now preserved in the 

 British Museum. 



The 36th, or concluding plate, is devoted to a new species of Cone Shell, 

 {eonus Nicolii,) of magnificent size for an example of that genus. 



Illustrations of British Ornithology. Second Series. Water 

 Birds. No. IX. By P. J. Selby, Esq. 



We have been favoured with an opportunity of inspecting as many of the 

 plates of this, the last Number but one, as are at present completed ; 

 and have it in our power to promise the subscribers an equally beau- 

 tiful fasciculus with any of the former. The plates we have seen, 

 contain Bewick's swan (the size of the plate ;) the buff-breasted 

 sandpiper ; the knot (in three different states of plumage ;) the velvet 

 scoter (male and female ;) the gray lapwing (summer and winter 

 plumage ;) and the smew (male and female.) 



The Birds of America ; from Drawings made in the United 

 States and its Territories. By John James Audubon, Esq, 

 F.R.S. F.L.S. &c. Citizen of the United States. No. XIX. 



This fasciculus of one of the most splendid works ever published in 

 Britain, contains, — blue-eyed yellow warbler {sylvia eestiva ;) bay- 

 winged bunting, male (Jringilla grammea,) with cactus opuntia ; 

 sea-side finch (fringllla marifima,) with rosa earolina ,- pigeon-hawk 

 {falco columbarius,) with juglans porcina. The critic will observe 

 in the engravings, that, though they are better than some of the former 

 ones, there is still a hardness where a dark shade comes upon any 

 light — which might be avoided : it makes some of the lines look as 

 if they were cut out, and pasted on. 



Illustrations of Ornithology. By Sir William Jardine, Bart, 

 and P. J. Selby, Esq. No. VII. 



We have seen the 7th fasciculus of this elegant work, the completing 

 number of the second volume. It contains, halcyon Macleayii ; platy- 

 cercus pileatus ; PtilonorhyncJius nuchalis j columba Smithii; picas Magel- 

 lanicus ; larus hematorhynchus ; ortyx Douglasii ; platycercus Slanleyii ; 

 eurystomus gularis ; and squatarola rubecola. From a notice appended 

 to this number, we learn, that in future Mr Swainson is to be a regu- 

 lar co-operator in the work. 



