CRITICAL OPINIONS OF ORNITHOLOGIA. 



"This is, at once, a curious, an instructive, and an amusing 

 work. The meritorious author has put together an immense 

 quantity of information and anecdote respecting birds and their 

 habits, (Sec; and his stories are not the less entertaining for being 

 strung together by poetical licence. The latter, it is true, is 

 rather of a medley cast ; but we can assure our readers, espe- 

 cially those who are young, that they will hardly be able to dip 

 intt) a page of this volume, without meeting with something to 

 entertain and instruct them." — Literary Gazette, Nov. 10, 1827. 



" Mr. Jennings's Ornithologia is agreeable and amusing." — 

 Gent. Mag. for Feb. iQ'iS. 



" Too often have books on ornithology, as on other subjects, 

 been rather adapted for scientific than for general readers, much 

 less youthful minds j and terms not understood by every one, 

 and difficult of remembrance, have been generally used. Mr. 

 Jennings has long turned his attention to the removing of this 

 impediment; and it is but honest to avow that, whether we 

 consider the extent of information he has here collected, or the 

 easy and unaffected style in which his work is written, our opi- 

 nion is, that it should obtain a place in the libraries of those who 

 are seeking for themselves, or their children, a plain and full trea- 

 tise on this interesting branch of s{\n\y."— Literary Chronicle, 

 Dec. 1,1827. 



" We cannot conclude this notice of Ornithologia, without 

 paying our due meed of praise to its scientific details, as well 

 as to the amiable spirit of philanthropy that pervades both 

 poetry and prose." — New Literary Gazette. 



"A very interesting volume : the poem which forms the ground- 

 work affords a favorable specimen of the author's genius in this 

 branch of composition." — Atlas. 



