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Zoology'* has greatly improved the English nomenclature of birds. 

 Whatever names are adopted in standard Ornithological Works will of 

 course be used by amateur Naturalists, and finally by the public. Selby 

 effected several good alterations in English nomenclature, but he seemed 

 to be labouring under the erroneous impression that giving proper names 

 would render his ** Illustrations" unpopular. 



Leaving this subject to the consideration of your readers, let us just 

 glance at an article on " Vernacular and Scientific Ornithological Nomen- 

 clature," at p. 305. Not only are the principles inculcated in this paper 

 sound, but they are carried into practice in a manner which has never 

 before been equalled. The names there proposed are excellent, and 

 especially that of the Caprimulgus Europeeus of Linnaeus. Your cor- 

 respondent proposes to name it the Fern Nightjar (Vociferator melolontha.) 

 This name is infinitely preferable to my name, V. Europeeus, which, 

 besides being rather a vague and inexpressive specific name, is erroneous, 

 as there is another European species, the Rednecked Nightjar ( V. rujicollis, 

 mihi ; Caprimulgus rujicollis, Temm.) The generic name of Linnaeus 

 and other authors was, however, what I most objected to. These 

 remarks having already extended to a greater length than I originally 

 intended, I here close my paper. 



NEVILLE WOOD. 



Foston Hall, Derbyshire, June 4, 1835. 



FINE ARTS. 



BY WILLIAM CAREY. 



The second Worcester Exhibition of the works of modern artists 

 opened on Monday, the 15th of June, at the Athenaeum. The number 

 of paintings, drawings, and sculpture, is 228, of which only four are of 

 the class last mentioned. There are twenty-six London exhibitors, who 

 have contributed sixty-nine pictures and drawings. The twenty-six 

 Worcester candidates for public approbation have sent 104 of their per- 

 formances ; four Birmingham exhibitors have six pictures ; Pershore, 

 Leamington, and Cheltenham have added eight from three artists; 

 Bewdley eight, from a lady's easel ; Derby two, from one painter ; an 

 Edinburgh professor one, and a foreign artist four, from France. 



The show is highly to the honour of British genius, and there are, 

 altogether, fewer inferiorities than last year. It is true Lord Northwick 

 has not lent his powerful aid. There is no production from the masterly 

 hand of Stanfield ; no work of Roberts, the first painter of architectural 

 views in Europe ; nor is there anything from the inspired pencil of Etty, 

 three artists whose admirable specimens, with Frazer's Antiquary and 

 Teniers in his painting-room, constituted a most attractive feature in last 

 year's exhibition. But then the works of Danby and M'Clise, two 

 professional giants, who did not contribute last year, are a tower of 

 strength in this exhibition. There is also a new and charming auxiliary 

 in Charles Landseer. Fewer portraits and pictures of horses, dogs, and 

 dead game are in this catalogue than are usual in the London and 

 provincial exhibitions. I am grieved to see there are only five which 

 can be classed under the head of history. A taste for landscape takes 

 the lead ; but it is a passion for local views, in which the British artists 



