APPENDIX. 



In the thirty-fifth number of the Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History, for October 1840, is an account, by Mr 

 G. R. Gray, of a specimen of " Sylvia luscinioides," found 

 by Mr J. Baker in the fens of Cambridgeshire. The fol- 

 lowing is the specific description given : 



322. SYLVIA LUSCINIOIDES. SAVI. 



" General colour above castaneous brown, with the tail 

 very inconspicuously barred with darker ; line over the eyes, 

 breast, sides, and under tail-coverts, paler than the upper 

 parts ; throat and middle of the abdomen albescent, the for- 

 mer slightly spotted triangularly with darker. The first quill 

 very short, and the second longest of all. Upper mandible 

 brown, lower and feet yellowish-brown. 



" Total length, 5| ; bill, ^ ; wings, 2| ; tail, 2 ; tarsi, T V' 



Of Mr Bellamy's Sylvia neglecta, I can say nothing with 

 certainty. The Canada Goose has perhaps a right to be 

 admitted into the British Fauna, and there may be several 

 other species having equal claims. The American Wigeon, 

 also, has been found in one of the London markets, and 

 therefore might have been described as British. 



On the whole, the present Manual seems to me to contain a 

 pretty accurate account of the Birds of Britain, and is such a 

 work as I should have been well pleased with when I commenced 

 the study of ornithology, with no other guides than Linnaeus, 

 Pennant, and Montagu. In the department of British Or- 

 nithology, the works most to be recommended to the student 



