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feathers perfectly black. Length, eight inches. The female has 

 the rose-colour less bright, the black band of the forehead and ears 

 more narrow ; this band and the black of the wings verging more 

 to brown. 



'' The young of the year, and hoth sexes after the autumnal 

 moult, do not exhibit the black frontal band. This part is, in win- 

 ter, of a dull ash-grey ; after the spring-moult, all the individuals 

 have the black stripe, and the rose-colour of the breast is more vi- 

 vid. The young of the year are, moreover, distinguished by the 

 dull ash-grey of the superior parts, all the feathers of which are 

 fringed, and by the dull- white of the lower parts. 



" IiUiabits the Archipelago, Turkey, Italy, Spain, and sometimes 

 visits the north of Europe, as far as Russia; breeds also in some 

 provinces of France and Germany, where the species is little dif- 

 fused : very rare in Holland. 



'' Food : Phalenas, Scarabaei, moles, crickets, and the smaller birds. 

 Propagation. Builds on forest-trees, and in bushes ; lays six ob- 

 long eggs of a whitish-green colour, which have, towards the cen- 

 tre, a zone formed by minute points of an olive- grey.'' 



Here our examination of the First Part of Mr. Gould's work 

 terminates. A brief analysis, or recapitulation, of its contents may 

 not be destitute of interest and utility to the ornithological student. 

 The twenty plates of which it c(msists, comprehend representations 

 of thirty-five figures, and twenty-three species, of birds, belonging 

 to the seventeen following genera: Alcedo, Anas (Clangula), Cha~ 

 radrius fPhivialisJ, Corvus (Pica), Curruca, Falco, Gallinula 

 CCrex), Lanius fCollurioJ, Mergus, Motacilla, Perdix (RufipesJ, 

 PicuSg Podiceps, Saxicola (Riibeira), Sylvia, Turdus, and Yunx 

 ( Torquilla). Eighteen of the plates represent one species each ; 

 and of these, six, only one figure of the adult; and twelve, two 

 figures : ten of the twelve exhibiting sexual, and the remaining two, 

 seasonal — diversities of plumage. Of the two remaining plates, one 

 illustrates two, and the other, three — species. Seventeen of the spe- 

 cies figured are British, and the remaining six, continental — birds. 

 The Analysis of Mr. Gould's work will be resumed in our next 

 number. 



[During the composition of the preceding Analytical Sketch, two addi- 

 tional publications, involving the subject of Ornithology, and consequently 



