382 Scientific Motices, 



of this valuable addition to the works devoted to the Natural History of 

 our own country have appeared, containing 59 representations of the 

 eggs of 40 species. 



The outlines of the various forms are accurate, the markings charac- 

 teristic, the shading and colouring delicate and true to nature, and 

 several of the subjects already represented are of great rarity. Each 

 number of this work, in addition to its four plates, contains several 

 pages of letter-press descriptive of the situation of the nests, the materials 

 of which they are composed, the number of eggs, &c. These and 

 various other particulars, obtained in most instances by the personal 

 observations of the authour, promise to add much to our knowledge on this 

 very interesting and important part of the Natural History of our Native 

 Birds. 



W. Y. 



Art. L. Scientific JVotices. 



Appendix to the Notice of the Herring. 



The fishermen of Portree in the Isle of Sky told my friend Mr. Atkinson 

 on his visit to St. Kilda during the summer of the past year that in 

 one of the Lochs of Inverness-shire they formerly caught a species of her- 

 ring twice the size of the common herring, and though this large sort were 

 not numerous, they always took a few every season during their fishing. 



The small transatlantic herring referred to, I learn from Mr. Ord, is 

 called by the Americans the Nova Scotia herring, and is considered a 

 better fish than the common herring of America, and a distinct species. 



W. Y. 



