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The Supplement to Shaw's General Zoology will 

 be found useful, as giving the characters of the 

 modern genera, in which many of our native 

 soecies, particularly the Natatores, will range. 

 Fleming's British Animals gives a synopsis of our 

 species, Turton's British Fauna contains another, 

 and the British Vertebrata of Jenyngs gives a 

 third, brought down to the commencement of the 

 last year. Many valuable papers have also ap- 

 peared in our transactions and periodicals, which, 

 however, are generally quoted in the works which 

 we have mentioned above, and in these the names 

 of Edwards, Forster, Walcot, Latham, Montague, 

 Wilson, Fleming, Selby, and Yarrell, may be 

 mentioned as all contributing to our stock of 

 information.* 



* One or two works have been omitted, which, though 

 they should be mentioned as indicating the progress, are 

 not at all necessary for the British ornithologist, Lord's 

 British Birds, published in 1791, folio, vyith ninety-six 

 plates ; Hunt's British Ornithology, published in 1815, 

 reached thirteen parts, with twelve plates in each ; Syme's 

 British Song Birds, published in 1823, a work with very 

 pretty figures, and good directions for breeding and rearing 

 cage birds ; Rennie's edition of Montague's Ornithological 

 Dictionary, published in 1831. 



Among the very modern works may be noted, Ey ton's 

 Rarer British Birds, a useful supplement to Bewick, 

 Mudie's- Feathered Tribes, Wood's Song Birds, and Mac- 

 gilivray's Raptores, &c. ; and we are waiting with anxiety 

 to see the first number of a new work, from which we 

 expect much, British Birds by William Yarreli. 



