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iiaturb will soon remedy any little defects. We would recommend 

 a little more artist-like feeling in the stumps or branches, and a 

 slight wash of colour, the want of which makes them appear rather 

 unfinished. We do not like the abrupt termination of the branch 

 in Noctua cuculo'ides. The plates should be numbered for refer- 

 ence. 

 The first number contains — 1. Garrulus lanceolatus; 2. Tragopan 

 Hastingsii, coming into the group with Phasianus satyrus, Temm. ; 

 3. Coccothraustes icterioides, M. and F. ; and, 4. Noctua cuculo'ides. 



Illustrations of the Family of the Psittacidce or Parrots. By 

 E. Lear. Nos. I. II. Imperial Folio. Ackerman, London. 



This work was undertaken, by a young artist, at the suggestion of Mr 

 Vigors, with the view of supplying a continuation tO the " Histoire 

 des Perroquets" of Le Vaillant. It is published in monthly numbers 

 of three or four plates each. The plates are lithographic, and in 

 drawing and attitude generally good. In some, the feathering is 

 rather hard and wiry, and we should like to see a little more force dis- 

 played in the grasping powers of the feet. The first of these remarks 

 will apply, as an example of what we mean, to the tail of Platy- 

 cercus Stanleyii, and to the wing of Palseornis columboides ; and the 

 latter to the feet of Psittacus badiceps and Plyctolophus sulphureur. 

 The plates should also be numbered for reference ; and \\q cannot 

 too much regret the want of descriptive letter-press. 



The species figured are, 1. Platycercus Stanleyii, Vig. ; 2. Plat, pileatus, 

 Jard. and Selb; 3. Palaeomis torquatus, a yellow variety ; a similar one 

 may have given rise to Latham's Jonquil parrakeet, Paleorn. Colum- 

 bo'ides, described as a new species by M. Vigors, in the XVIII. 

 number of the Zoological Journal. The following are its characters : — 

 Bitorquatus dorso, abdomineque, imis alis, caudaque supra viridibus ; 

 capite, pectore, dorso abdomineque summis plumbescenti-canis ; torque 

 collari superiore gracili, gulaque nigris : torque inferiore lata, fronte, 

 regioneque circumoculari cserulescenti-viridibus. Magnitude Palae- 

 omis Alexandri. The specimen is alive in the collection of the 

 Zoological Society. 



Next follow; 4. Psittacus badiceps; 5. Psittacula Swinderniana, (Psitta- 

 cus, Swindernianus, Kuhl ;) and 6. Plyctolophus sulphureus. 



The colouring is very good and clean, but we could wish a little less 

 gum were used. 



Temminck, Planches Colorizes, Livraisons LXXXIII-LXXXVI, 



Ornithologists will regret to learn, that the authors of this desirable 

 work have resolved, for the present at least, to suspend its pub- 

 lication. We have just received the four last Livraisons up to 

 No. 86, and believe that it will only be continued for one or 



two numbers Livraison 86 contains the first part of a very 



valuable Tableau Methodique, or Index, containing M. Temminck's^ 

 systematic arrangement of both his own Planches Colories, and the 

 PI. Enluminees of Bufi'on, of which the present work was intended 

 as a sequel. The index is contained in six different columns, and 

 shews at once the species contained in both works, with their Latin 

 synonymes, nearly as adopted by modern naturalists. The first 

 columns contain the orders and genera, (a Cadre Systematique ;) 2(f, 

 The number of the PI. Enlum. ; 3rf, Number of PI. Col. ; Uh, The 

 name written on the plates ; 5<A, The name adopted in the systems. 



