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which time I have not heard of any being met with : about ten years ago they 

 were taken one winter in immense numbers. 



This bird would seem to possess a more northern range than the other, and is 

 apparently the same on both sides of the Atlantic, whereas the smaller race does 

 not occur in America. I have seen many skins of a still larger species from 

 Russia and Siberia, and examples undistinguishable from the British Mealy Linnet 

 from Japan : but some of the foreign specimens are extremely puzzling, and I 

 very much incline to the opinion that all cannot be discriminated : even the 

 American specimens have generally rather more white upon them than those of 

 Europe. 



It is worthy of notice, and a curious indication of the difference of size between 

 the two British races, that whereas both are equally fond of hemp-seed, when in 

 captivity, the larger only is enabled to crack their seeds for itself; and would 

 feed on nothing else if suffered to do so : the lesser kind may manage to husk an 

 unusually smatt one, but cannot feed on those of average dimensions. 



North Brixton, Surrey, 

 Sept. 20, 1837. 



SOME ACCOUNT OP THE PRINCIPAL WORKS ON ZOOLOGY AND 



BOTANY. 



Section 1. Zoology. 

 By Neville Wood, Esquire. 



A correspondent has favoured us with a brief account of some of the most 

 important works on Botany ; but as no one has had the courage to grapple with 

 the zoological department, we shall, in compliance with the wish expressed by 

 Charles Han way, Esq., of Alton Hall, Gloucestershire (p. 359), attempt to 

 supply that information which our contributors appear to think should in cour- 

 tesy be allowed to fall to our own lot. 



In soliciting information respecting not only the best complete works and 

 monographs, but also papers in transactions of learned societies and in periodi- 

 cals, Mr. Hanway can have but little knowledge of the labor such a task must 

 necessarily involve, or of the extent to which Natural Science has been studied 

 in the civilized World from the time of Pliny downwards. The mere titles of 

 all the works extant upon Natural History would occupy more pages than we 

 are at present Avilling to bestow upon the subject ; and as to the innumerable 



