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useful and elegant art appears to have been two 

 centuries ago. As everything connected with so 

 illustrious an Ornithologist as the author of the 

 General Ornithology is invested with interest, I shall 

 conclude with Ray's account of his parentage : — 

 il Francis Willughby was the only son of Sir 

 Francis Willughby, Knight, descended of two 

 very ancient families, both Willughby's, the one 

 Honourable, viz. that of Eresby in Lincolnshire, 

 by the Father's side; the other Worshipful, viz. 

 that of Willughby on the Woulds in Nottingham- 

 shire, by the Mother's. His Mother was the Lady 

 Cassandra, Daughter to the Right Honourable the 

 Earl of Londonderry." 



A Natural History of Uncommon Birds ; and some other rare and 

 undescribed Animals : Exhibited in Three Hundred and Sixty Copper 

 Plates. By George Edwards, 7 vols, quarto. 1750-60. 



Science, Classification, and Animal Biography 

 are alike wanting in these volumes, for " honest 

 George Edwards," has presented us with little 

 more than the representations of each of the animals, 

 together with a description of their appearance — 

 the title, it is thus evident, is a misnomer. The 

 Plates are all etched by himself, from his own 

 "Designs copied immediately from Nature, and 

 curiously colored after life." These are mostly 

 struck off in a very spirited style, and almost all 

 the figures have an appearance of life, which can- 



