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attitudes which are at once characteristic of the species delineated 
by him, and thus imparting to them a life-like appearance which 
is heightened by the general accuracy of his colouring. We are 
not over-rating M. Robert’s work when we say that these French 
chromo-lithographs, which are far in advance of anything of the 
kind hitherto produced in England, come nearer to the hand- 
coloured lithographs of Messrs. Wolf and Keuleman’s than any 
we have yet seen. 
The birds figured in the present volume are all life-size, and 
include half-a-dozen species of British Titmouse, the House and 
Tree Sparrows ; the Brambling, Chaftinch, and Greenfinch ; the 
Hoopoe, Thrush, Blackbird, and Nightingale; the Redbreast, 
Goldcrest, Garden Warbler, Blackcap, and Whitethroat ; in all, 
twenty species of birds which are, or should be, familiar from 
their attractive appearance, their song, or their general utility to 
man as a cultivator of the soil. 
An account of each has been furnished (by the Editor of this 
Journal), in which, it is hoped, there will be found enough 
information on the haunts, habits, food, nidification, and 
migration of the different species to interest the reader without 
boring him. 
It has been thought preferable in a work of this kind, wherein 
the plates form the chief attraction, to give brief but comprehen- 
sive sketches of the natural history of the species noticed, rather 
than descend into minute particulars and comparisons which, 
however interesting they might prove to practical ornithologists, 
would probably not entertain the general reader. 
As the plates now published comprise only about a third of 
what M. Robert has finished, the publishers contemplate the 
issue of another series, should the present work find sufficient 
favour in the eyes of the public. 
Bright Feathers ; or, Some North-American Birds of Beauty. By 
Frank R. Rarupun. Tlustrated with drawings made from 
nature, and carefully coloured by hand. Part. I.  4to, 
pp- 24, with one coloured plate. Auburn, N.Y.: published 
by the author. 1880. 
In the Introduction to Part I. of this work, the author informs 
us that “the series is intended to include ten or more species (in 
