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It may be useful to mention, that, owing to the higher scale 

 of duty'fto which prints are subjected, the yltlas may be had in 

 England with the letter-press of the Manuel, on the same terms as 

 without it. 



Birds of America, from Drawings made during a residence of 

 upwards of twenty-fi-ce years in the United States and its 

 Territories : by J. J. Audubon. No. 1. 



Only one number of this immense undertaking has yet ap- 

 peared : immense indeed, since with the view of figuring every 

 bird in its natural dimensions, a size of paper is employed so 

 large that we know not how to designate it. Some idea of it 

 may be formed from the fact that the full grown Wild Turkey 

 is contained in one of the plates already published. They are 

 executed in a high style of art, and are so beautifully coloured as 

 to become not merely subjects for the study of the naturalist, but 

 also ornaments for the most select port-folio or the drawing-room. 



Illustrations of Ornithology : by Sir William Jardine, Burt., 

 F.R.S., Sfc. ; and P. J. Selby, Esq., F.L.S., Sfc. Parts i. and 

 a. Royal 4to. Plates. 



To these earliest numbers of a work, which has been under- 

 taken as a national one, with the cooperation of representatives 

 of most of our scientific Institutions, we propose to return when 

 our limits will afford us sufficient space to do justice to their 

 contents. 



Illustrations of British Ornithology : by P. J. Selby, Esq., 

 F.L.S., Sfc. — Water Birds. Nos. ii. and Hi. Folio. 



The approaching termination of this magnificent work will 

 shortly, we trust, put it in our power to speak of it as a whole, 

 complete and almost perfect. Till then we defer our notice and 

 the commendations which it imperatively demands. 



