180 Notices and Analyses. 



Illustrations of Indian Zoology ; or, Coloured Plates of New, or 

 hitherto unfigured Indian Animals, from the Collection of 

 General Hardwicke. Selected and arranged by John E. 

 Gray, Esq. F.G.S. F.L. S., &c. Nos. III. & IV. 



The frequent mention of General Hardwicke's drawings in works of 

 natural history, and the fact, that a great proportion of the descriptions 

 of Indian species in Dr Latham's General History of birds has 

 been taken from these drawings, are alone sufficient to render faith- 

 ful copies of much consequence. The plates embrace every branch 

 of Zoology, and are taken from drawings by native artists, made from 

 living or fresh specimens of the objects represented. In some 

 instances the attitudes of the animals and birds are stiff; but a strict 

 adherence to the copies is preferable to any attempt to alter what has 

 already been the authority of many naturalists. They are drawn 

 upon stone, or engraved, as the particular style may suit the subject. 

 The fishes are principally engraved by Swaine, already kno^vn as the 

 artist employed in Hamilton's Fishes of the Ganges, and Dr 

 Horsfield's beautiful Plates of Annulosa Javanica. 



No. III. contains Erinaceus collaris ; Mydaus collaris, Gray, — 

 the skuU, and dentition ; Dysopes murinus, from Bengal ; Pica 

 Sinensis, India ; Phasianus purpureus, (Ph. erythrophthalmus. 

 Raffles ?) ; Hyla maculata and Rana Bengalensis, Bengal ; Scyllum 

 maculatum, India, and Scyllum ornatum from China ; Clupea affinis, 

 Penang ; Balitora Brucei, and maculata. Gray ; Cyprinus Gotyla, 

 Mountain stream, India ; and Ammonites Nepaulensis, A. Wallichii, 

 A.tenuistriata, all from Sulgranees, Nepaul. 



In No. IV. the plates are Antilope cervicapra, in different states ; 

 Perdix Hardwickii, Gray ; Perdix olivacea. Lath. ; Caprimulgus 

 Indicus and Asiaticus, Lath ; Pica vagabunga, Calcutta ; Anas Girra, 

 male and female ; Trionyx ocellatus, India, from Dr Buchanan 

 Hamilton's drawings ; Emys Baska; Cyprinus Hamiltonii, Gray, and 

 C. Goha, Hamilton, both of natural size ; Sygnathus Carce, Hamil- 

 ton ; S. fasciatus, from Ambryna ; S. Hardwickii, India ; S. 

 Deokhata, Hamilton, Salt water Lakes, Bengal. The plates are 

 very carelessly lettered. 

 A Prodromus Faunae Indicae is announced by Mr Gray, as a synoptical 

 text to the Illustrations of Indian Zoology. It will be completed 

 in four royal 8vo parts. Part I. will contain the Mammalia. 



A Century of Birds hitherto Unfigured, from the Himalaya 

 Mountains. By John Gould, A.L.S. No. I. Imperial Folio. 

 London. 



We have received the first Number of this work, alike creditable to the 

 talents and the industry of the author. Since the institution of the 

 Zoological Society of London, Mr Gould has had the active charge of 

 preparing and keeping the collection ; and, having privately come into 

 possession of a collection of birds, from the generally unexplored 

 district of the Himalaya, he has shewn his zeal for ornithology in 

 making the more interesting species known to the public. The des- 

 criptions are to be supplied separately, by N. A. Vigors, Esq. 

 secretary to the society, whose ornithological knowledge will be a 

 guarantee for correctness. We cannot help wishing, however, that 

 the descriptive letter-press had accompanied each plate. The plates 

 are drawn by Mrs Gould^ and are indeed, very fair specimens of 

 lithography. She is yet a young 'artifi|t.; ijut ^ strict attention to 



