398 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1837-43. Yarrell, W.— Coutinued. 



The following are the editions of this celehrated work : — 

 1837-43. Editio princeps, ut supra. 



1845. (.Supplement to the same. 8ro. London. V.an Voorst, pp.54.) 

 1845. Second edition. 



1856. (Supplement to the same. 8vo. London. Tan Voorst, pp. x, 72.) 

 1856. TiifRU edition. 



1871-18S-. Fourth edition (now in progress). 

 "Many recent wood-engravers have approached Bewick, but none have yet equalled him. 

 Among the most successful of these the Messrs. Thompson of London must be specially men- 

 tioned. Their woodcuts in Tarrell's ' British Birds' are beautiful works of art ; in delicacy 

 of execution they often exceed the engravings of Bewick ; but the occasional stiflness of atti- 

 tude in the birds, and a conventional sketchiness in the accompaniments, indicate the profes- 

 sional artist and not the self-taught child of iSTature. The beauty of Tairell's 'British Birds' 

 is much enhanced by improvements in the preparation of paper and ink, and in the mode of 

 taking off the impressions which have been introduced since Bewick's time. It is probable 

 that if the wood-blocks of Bewick, now in the possession of the great engraver's family, were 

 intrusted to one of our first-rate London printers, an edition of Bewick's ' Birds ' could be now 

 produced, far superior in execution to any which was issued in the lifetime of the author." — 

 (Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1844, 1845, p. 202.) 

 1838. Couch, J. A | Cornisli Fauna : | beiiig a eompeudium | of the Natural History 

 I of I the t'ouuty, | Intended to form a Companion to the Collection in the 

 Museum of the Eoyal | Institution of Cornwall. | — | Part I, | containing the 

 I Vertebrate, Crustacean, | and a portion of the | Radiate Animals. | — | By 

 Jonathan Couch, F. L. S., &,c. &c. \ — | Truro : | Printed for the Royal Insti- 

 tution of Cornwall, | By L. E. Gillet. | — | 1838. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. i-vi, 5-84. 

 There are three parts of this " Cornish F.auna" : Pt. 11, 1841, by the same ; Part III, 1844, 

 by Richard Q. Couch. Part I, as above, is occupied with Birds at pp. 10-30 ; being .in anno- 

 tated list of species. • 

 1838. Editorial. [Notice of Macgillivray's History of British Birds, Vol.1. <^Mag* 



of Zool. andBot., ii, 1838, pp. 267-269. 

 1838-39. Eytox, T. C. An Attempt to ascertain the Fauna of Shropshire and North 

 Wales. < Ann. of Xat. HiHt., i, 1838, pp. 28.')-293 ; ii, 1839, pp. i>2-')C\ 

 An annotated list of species. 

 1838-43. .Iardine, W. The | Naturalist's Library. | Edited by | Sir William Jar- 

 dine, Bart., I F. R.S. E., F.L. S., etc., etc. j Vol. I. [-IV.] | — | Ornithology. 

 I Birds of Great Britain and Ireland.— Part I. [-IV. ] | By the Editor. | — | 

 Edinburgh : W. H. Lizars, [etc. ] n. d. [1838-1843. ] 4 vols. sm. 12mo. Vol. I, 

 1838, portrait of Sibbald, eng. title, other title, contents, 1 leaf, pp. 17-315; 

 unnumbered woodcc, pli. col'd 1-34. Vol.11, portrait of Smellie, eng. and 

 col'd title, other title, contents, 1 leaf, pp. 17-409; cuts, pll. col'd 1-30 (with 

 title-vignette and portrait = .32 plates). Vol. Ill, 1842 ?, portrait of Rev. Dr. 

 Walker, eug. title, other title, contents, pp. 17-.349; cuts, pll. col'd 1-34 

 (+ portrait and viguette = 36, not " 34 " as said by the editor). Vol: IV, 1843, 

 portrait of Wilson, eng. title, other title, contents, 1 leaf, pp. 17-313 : cuts, 

 pll., 1, 2, 2*, .3-30 (with portrait and vignette = 33 plates). 



Vol. I=" IX', Vol. 11= "XI", Vol. in r= "XII ", Vol.IV="XIV", of the general ar- 

 rangement of the series ; nee Jard. Nat. Libr., lS33-Wi'i. The 1st vol. treats ot Raptores ; 2d, 

 Dentirostres, Conirostres, Seansores, Tenuirostres, Fissirostres ,- 3d, Gallince and Grallfe ; 4tli, 

 Natatores; with memoirs of the per.s(ms whose respective portraits are prefixed. 



The pleasure of handling the admirable and most attractive publications of which the 

 Baronet is author or editor, in .some moments gives way to a feeling of vexation at the otfish- 

 ness, or amateurishness, which seems to disdain the convention.alities of book-making. 

 1838. Selby, p. J. The Fauna of Twizell. <^Mag. of Zool. and Bot, ii, 1838, pp. 387- 

 397. 



One of a series; chiefly ornithological; general sketch of the avifauna, .ind nominal list of 

 •112 .spp. 

 1838. Selby, P. J. Ueber die vierfussigen Thiere und Vogel in der Grafschaft Sonth- 

 erlaud in Schottland im Sommer 1834. < Oken's Ms, Bd. xxxi, 1838, pp. 

 68-73. 

 Aus d. Edinh. New Philos. Journ., vol. sx, p. 156-161, 286-295. 



