26G Bibliographical Notices. 



by the jaguar into the wood, where we found it minus its tail part, 

 which to a third of the fish's length had been eaten off. It may be 

 conceived what strength was necessary to get it out of the canoe, 

 and I am almost inclined to suppose that it had been assisted by 

 another jaguar. Our endeavours to rid ourselves of this unwelcome 

 visitor proved all fruitless, and there were some among us who began 

 to think like the Indians that its life was enchanted. 



Mr. Vieth, who formed one of our party during the two last ex- 

 peditions into the interior, and who during a long stay in Guiana 

 has attentively observed the habits of the native cats, told me that 

 lie went to sleep in an Indian hut where there were altogether 

 seven hammocks hanging occupied by Indians, and each having a 

 fire underneath it ; nevertheless at about nine o'clock at night, a 

 jaguar of that species entered a hut, and in spite of the screaming of 

 the Indians carried away a dog which was lying near one of the 



fires. 



[To be continued.] 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriees a" Oiseaux, pour servir de suite 

 et de complement aux Planches Enlumintes de Buffon. Par C. J. 

 Temminck et Meiffren Laugier Baron de Chartrouse. Livr. 98 — 

 102. Paris, 1839. 



These " Livraisons " bring a work to a conclusion, which, com- 

 mencing at a time when there existed few periodicals devoted to 

 ornithology, was hailed with much interest. During nearly twenty 

 years it has been conducted with great regularity, having only when 

 near its conclusion occasionally failed in its monthly appearance, 

 while it has maintained an equality in execution alike creditable to 

 the authors and the artists employed by them. The original design 

 of the work was to continue modern discovery in a series of figures 

 of birds not contained in the ' Planches Enluminees,' and it now ex- 

 tends to a collection of 600 plates, on which are represented about 

 800 species, delineated in almost every instance with a correctness 

 which will allow of little mistake, and coloured with great clearness ; 

 at the same time the plates bear the peculiar character of foreign 

 art, which is not in many instances in accordance with the taste of 

 the British ornithological draftsman. This collection is especially 

 rich in figures of many of the species inhabiting the Dutch posses- 

 sions in the islands of the East, where the valuable and beautiful 

 productions became first appreciated and in part described in the 



