134 Notices and Analyses, 



Plate 507. Lophophore resplendissant, male. 



508. Martinet peclieur, lazule. 



509. Bee en fourreau, blanc. 



510. Falcinelle coureur, plum, parfait. 



511. Ibis chalcoptere. 



512. Verdin barbe blue. V. icterocephalus. 



These two species were described in a former number 

 under the generic title Phylornis, (the Genus Chlo- 

 ropsis of Jardine and Selby.) W. J. 



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. XX. 



The concluding fasciculus of the first volume of this magnificent work 

 contains Columbia jay, (Garrulus ultramarinus,) male and female. 

 Mottled owl, (strix asio,) adult and young, with Pinus inops. Marsh 

 wren, (Troglodytes palustris,) male and female, with the nest. Cow 

 bunting, (Icterus peconis ;) male and female: typical of the genus 

 Dolyconix, Sw. Green-blue, or white-bellied swallow, (Hirundo 

 bicolor.) There is no title page delivered with this number, which 

 will be necessary before the volume can be bound. 



Note Mr Audubon is preparing engravings of the most celebrated 



American naturalists, to accompany this work : that of Alexander 

 Wilson, from an original painting, is already far advanced, by an 

 American artist. 



Robert Brown's Vermischte Botanische Schriften^ S^c. Robert 

 Brown's Miscellaneous Botanical Works, translated into German, 

 and accompanied by annotations. By Dr C. G. Nees von Esen- 

 BECK, in connection with several friends. Vol. 4th, with five 

 lithographic plates. Niirnberg, 1830. 



The editorial labours of the learned Professor C. G. Nees von Esen- 

 beck, terminate, as far as the present undertaking is concerned, with 

 this volume. He has brought down the account of the works of our 

 eminent countryman, Mr Robert Brown, to the present time, con- 

 cluding with the article on active molecules. In order, however, to 

 give additional interest to that subject, the editor has added minute 

 details of the observations of M. Adolphe Brongniart, and of Dr F. 

 J. F. Meyen. The reader will, in fact, find a full and well digested 

 account of this curious subject, to which we have several times 

 adverted, illustrated by descriptions of various other natural phenomena 

 which appear to throw light upon it. 



Icones Filicum. By W. J. Hooker, LL.D. &c. and R. K. Gre- 

 viLLE, LL. D. &c. Fasciculus 10. Treuttel and Wiirtz, Lond. 



The tenth number of this work has just appeared, among which we 

 perceive several very interesting plants, particularly some from the 

 rich collection of the East India Company. When, however, we 

 consider that two numbers more will complete the work, we cannot 

 help regretting that the word potissimum in the title page had not 

 been omitted, and that none now appeared but those that were 

 entirely new or involved in great obscurity, — instead, therefore, of 

 Asplenium cuneatum, {t. 1S9,) Adiantum ohliquum, (t. 190,) Ccenopteris 



