86 THE ORNITHOLOGICAL GUIDE. 



not be said of many, perhaps the greater part of 

 later attempts of the kind. His style is rather 

 rough, and thus it is better adapted for quadrupeds 

 than for birds ; some of the former, as the Cavy, 

 the Squirrel, &c, are very admirably executed. 

 Being mostly from old museum specimens, they 

 have many of them a faded appearance, which 

 would have been avoided had they been fresh from 

 their native haunts. The wort is altogether a very 

 valuable acquisition to the Ornithologist, and con- 

 tains some interesting reading. The author, in order 

 to make his work useful to foreigners, has given all 

 the letter-press in French as well as in English. 



British Zoology; being an account of all the animals hitherto dis- 

 covered in Britain : by Thomas Pennant, Esq. A New Edition 

 in four vols. 1812. 



Pennant has always been a popular author, and the 

 British Zoology displays no small portion of that 

 refined taste and classical research which gained 

 him that popularity. It must indeed have been a 

 valuable acquisition to the Zoologist^ when it first 

 appeared, (the preface to the first edition is dated 

 March 1st, 1776,) for though little is to be gained by 

 a perusal of its pages now, yet at that time it may 

 almost be said to have formed an epitome of all 

 then known of the subject. It is a work which 

 will long rank high in the estimation of the Zoolo- 

 gical amateur. Pennant was bom June 14th, 

 1726, and died December 16th, 1798. 



