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Part V. 



Sparrow-Hawk. 

 Tawny or Brown Owl. 

 Avocet. 



Great Bustard. 

 Little Bustard. 

 Parrot Crossbill. 

 Common Crossbill. 

 White-winged Crossbill. 



Rough-legged Buzzard. 



Bittern. 



King-fisher. 



Ptarmigan (summer plumage). 



Ditto (winter plumage). 



Ditto (autumn plumage). 

 Redstart. 

 Black Redstart. 



American White-winged Crossbill 



Cuckoo. 



Golden Plover (summer plumage). 



Ditto (winter plumage). 

 Rook. 



Spotted Flycatcher. 

 Pied Flycatcher. 



Part VI. 



Field-fare. 



Redwing. 



Spotted Crake. 



Olivaceous Crake. 



Baillon's Crake. 



Whin- chat. 



Stone-chat or Furze-chat. 



We think it rather a pity that Mr. Gould has admitted the 

 American White-winged Crossbill to a place in this work. It 

 may be justifiable enough to enumerate among " British " birds 

 those species of other regions whose habitual range overlaps the 

 habitual range of really " British " species, while at the same 

 time their occurrence in these islands may be more or less fre- 

 quent. But this, we believe, cannot be said of Loxia leucoptera 

 for its normal distribution must necessarily be bounded by the 

 pine-forests of the New World ; and, unless we are greatly mis- 

 taken, the limits of coniferous trees in America do not extend to 

 those high latitudes where the Nearctic and Palsearctic faunas 

 inosculate. The excellence of the plates in all Mr. Gould's books 

 is a matter of notoriety, but in this work the rest are completely 

 surpassed. We may especially mention the three illustrations 

 of the Ptarmigan as being actual pictures, and pictures that add 

 to the already great reputation of the artist, Mr. Wolf. The 

 adult plumage of Archibuteo lagopus has never before, we believe, 

 been figured in any English work. 



Mr. Gurney has, we are glad to say, commenced the publication 

 of a Catalogue * of the almost unequalled collection of Birds of 



* A Descriptive Catalogue of the Raptorial Birds in the Norfolk and 

 Norwich Museum, compiled and arranged by John Henry Gurney. Part I. 

 SerpentariidcB, Polyboridce, Vulturidae. Royal 8vo., London : 1864 (Van 

 Voorst). 



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