THE OSPREY. 



39 



L. brachyrhynchus, p. 422. 

 /,. /■ 1 1, n ; 24. 



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 Lestrii R 



i 



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i 47.1. 



Swainson also furnishes tw> 

 volume. 



"Appendix. No. I" compri 

 genera and subgenera hithe In 



this arc g i 



from all parts 



All of tii 

 new, i 

 Swainsi >n hims 



others pr. 

 name ai 



had 1 1 



various genera ■■: the ; 



another nam 

 to him, a 



X > ■ v i i thi 

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nige> an any 



allusion b 

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 doubl 



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repe;. 



the -,i i ; 



Una: 



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cent • r 

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"Amp ■•' id 

 descrip 



ved it. ■ 

 pax n, 

 by J 

 be tii ■ 

 was , . , 

 Bay." 



This volt i 

 to have been n 

 It was ruunin 

 press 

 the / 



January [e. g. Jan. 1 . 

 1831, as 



day : r volume, 



and in a numb tb tes 1 he work 



was further a orial notice in 



the Athenceum of February 4, 1832, however, 

 told of it in the statement: "we think it well 

 to announce the publication of this splendid 

 work". 



The work was also reviewed in the Athenceum 

 and in the Literary Gazette for February 11, 1832. 

 review in the Athenceum the interesting 

 information is yiven that "this splendid 

 volume, the publication of which we announced 

 in our paper of last week, forms the second part 

 of the first zoological work ever published under 

 the immediate authority of the British Govern- 

 ment." 



SWAINSO l.'KI, WITH VIGORS. 



\VI Paris in the summer of 1829, Swain- 



the acquaintance of a number of the 

 oininent naturalists of France, and 

 i ' evere Less* m and 

 ii Desmarest; both were ornitho- 

 well as mammalogical authors and 

 ... in the French navy a 

 They had incurred the 

 i Nicholas Aylmer Vigors, the 

 ntly started Zoological 

 ■t ut of dissent from 

 iticisin of ins views, and been sub- 



1 to some caustic criticism in turn. Swain- 

 intervened with the result so frequently 

 it on an intermeddler. 

 Swainson appears to have been influenced by 

 ngaging in this controversy. 

 ! for attempting to draw 

 vail which hides a secret and read 

 lies, lie may be pardoned for as- 

 for Lesson and Des- 

 v sentiment; doubtless 

 svas willing to confirm 

 French naturalists. He was 

 to convince himself that his 

 purely alti he was, however, 



avail himself of an opportunity 

 tiding ... Vigors. That man. 

 the Z' "' Society, had in- 



furt'uermore, his inti- 

 his advocacy and pos- 

 lurin ■ of the great original 



•ially in his application of qui- 

 ion of birds, had 

 iusy. He little 

 which would be conse- 

 :i or the blow to his vanity 

 administered. 

 The was initiated by him in an 



Magazine of Natural History for 

 108) entitled "A Defence of 

 h Naturalists." purporting to 

 to one published by Vigors in 

 the Zoological Journal (iii, 92-100). It was rather 

 an attack on Vigors, however, than a defence 

 of the French naturalists. A great fire was 

 kindled from a very little flame. 



To be Continued, i 



*We ir indebte I to Dr. Richmond for calling attention to the advertisement and reviews here noticed. 



