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published by the very gentleman who made the dis- 

 covery William Yarrell, Esq. F.L.S. Here all the 

 internal dissections are developed in the most scientific 

 manner, and elucidated by lithographic drawings. But, 

 as natural history is not our subject, I will conclude 

 with a superficial extract from the work alluded to. 

 " Several examples of this new species are now ascer- 

 tained to be in British collections. The museum of 

 the Cambridge Philosophical Society contains one. 

 There is one in the possession of Edward Lombe, Esq., 

 of Great Melton, who has an excellent collection of 

 British birds. A third was shot in the winter of 1827- 

 28, by Colonel Hawker. These three were preserved 

 by Mr. Leadbeater. A specimen was also killed in 

 February, 1829, near Haydon-bridge, upon which bird 

 some remarks have been lately made before the Natural 

 History Society of Newcastle, by Mr. Richard Wingate 

 of that town." [These, I suppose, are the four speci- 

 mens to which Mr. Leadbeater alluded.] Mr. Yarrel 

 then adds, " I have also had the pleasure of presenting 

 three specimens, which furnished part of the materials 

 for this paper, to the collections of the British Museum 

 and the Linnaean and Zoological Societies." 



" It is my intention, and on this occasion I anticipate 

 the accordance of every British naturalist, to devote this 

 species, which, I trust, I have proved to be distinct and 

 unnamed before, to the memory of our late unrivalled 

 engraver on wood, the justly celebrated Bewick." 



Our naturalists are no less indebted to Mr. Yarrel, for 

 his anatomical discoveries, and the good taste he has 

 evinced by rendering so just a tribute to our immortal 

 Bewick, than to Bewick himself, for his unrivalled en- 

 gravings in ornithology. 



