112 THE ORNITHOLOGICAL GUIDE. 



Wanderings in South America, the North West of the United States, 

 and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824. With 

 original instructions for the perfect preservation of Birds, &c. By 

 Charles Wateiiton, Esq. 2nd edition, 10s. Od. 1828. 



The Author of this book is one of the most 

 enterprising naturalists we ever heard of, perhaps 

 surpassing even Audubon in this respect. We 

 should be curious to have a phrenological estimate 

 of his head. "We surmise that Combativeness and 

 Firmness are " mountain high," and Cautiousness 

 scarce tangible. We find that he has had his " ups 

 and downs" in life as well as other folk, for now we 

 find him on the top of the point of the conductor 

 above the cross on the top of St. Peter's at Rome, 

 where he left his glove, and afterwards of his stand- 

 ing on one foot upon the Guardian Angel's Head 

 on the Castle of St. Angelo : then we hear of him 

 laving his foot 'neath the stupendous fall of Nia- 

 gara, and on his return home of his being let down 

 over beetling precipices in search of the eggs of 

 sea birds, for which he risked what others would 

 not "for all beneath the moon." But if he is a 

 daring fellow traveller, he also makes an amusing, 

 and we may add, an instructive one. However, we 

 cannot devote much more space to this work as it 

 does so little to advance the science of Ornithology ; 

 what is said on this subject is rather an incitement 

 to others than positive information in itself. The 

 little that is said is rendered almost entirely useless 

 by the birds being described under the Indian names. 



