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in Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History: and a figure of the 
bird, by Mr. Eyton, in his continuation of Bewick. The figure of 
the specimen in question,—a female,—executed in Mr. Gould’s cha- 
racteristic style of accuracy and elegance, terminates this, the con- 
cluding Part of a work, splendid, interesting, and valuable, beyond all 
our feeble powers of eulogy or expression ; and, certainly, yet unri- 
valled in that department of Zoology 1o the illustration of which it is 
devoted. 
In addition to the eight supernumerary Plates, this last Part contains 
the Title-pages, and Indexes of the Plates, of the five Volumes which 
the whole is destined to form; Dedication, Preface, Introduction, 
List of Subscribers, and general List of Plates, systematically arrang- 
ed under the five Orders of Raptores, Insessores, Rasores, Gralla- 
tores, and Natatores.* 
* On some future occasion, we propose to give an extended notice of the 
other ornithological works of the accomplished and indefatigable Mr. Gould ; 
and an abstract of the valuable German work on the Nests and Eggs of Birds, 
to which we have adverted in the former part of this Analysis. 
P. 
Paradise-street, Birmingham. 
March, 1839. 
THE MUSICIAN ABOUT TOWN. 
Tue only theatrical novelty, connected with music, that has oc- 
curred since the publication of our last number, has been the opera 
of “ Farinelli,” from the pen of Mr. Barnett, and which was brought 
forward at Drury Lane on the 8th of February. The composers of 
operatic music appear to have established to themselves a prescrip- 
tive right of making ad libitum demands upon the toleration of their 
audiences for every species of license they may think fit to take 
with the plot, situation, incident, and character, of the drama they 
have determined to illustrate and embellish with their own art. 
The more preposterous the story and treatment of the libretto, the 
greater the probability that a musician will be found to adopt it. 
One would suppose (judging by the character of all the operas that 
