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difficulty enticed it out at the door with a spoon of 

 milk ; it returned twice to the room ; the third time, 

 it ventured into a little tree ; it then fled, and perched 

 on my hand, and drank milk out of the spoon ; from 

 thence it fiew to the ground, on some damp chick- 

 weed, in which it washed itself, and got into a holly 

 bush to dry; after getting among the leaves, I could 

 see no more of it, but heard it call several times. I 

 suppose, after it got quite dry, that it left the country 

 directly j as I could never see or hear it afterwards ; 

 and it was then the end of November, when all the 

 others had left for some time." Had the plates been 

 more respectably executed, the work would have 

 been a very desirable one, though certainly not 

 worth even half the original price. It is a very 

 convenient size, (about the same as the British 

 Oology) and a work on British Birds, about the same 

 size as this, each species illustrated by a colored 

 plate, and each plate accompanied by five or six 

 pages of description, is a great desideratum to the 

 British Ornithologist. The work might come out 

 in monthly numbers, each number containing five or 

 six plates. Mr. Sweet's work came out in three 

 numbers. The author died January 20th, 1835, 

 aged 52. 



The Birds of Europe ; in quarterly parts, imperial folio, each part 

 containing 20 plates and 20 leaves of letter-press ; each price £3 8s. 

 By John Gould. 



The first part of this beautiful work appeared in 

 June, 1832, and 14 parts have now been published. 



