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hardy adventurer. Audubon corrects many errors of 

 his predecessors, Wilson not excepted, and has 

 made numerous interesting additions to the American 

 fauna ; at the head of these in the Land birds is the 

 Washington Eagle (Aquila TVashingtonia,) and of 

 the water birds, the Western Hern (Ardea occiden- 

 talism — the largest bird of its genus, and in every 

 stage .pme white. Besides the old species of Colibree 

 — the Rubythroated Colibree (Colubris rubens,) 

 Audubon has discovered another — the Mango Coli- 

 bree C Colubris mango. J Among other new discov- 

 eries we may notice the Wood Wren ( Anorthura 

 silvestris,) the Common Polibor (Poliborus vulgaris 

 Vieil,) the Carbuncle Kinglet (Regulus carbunculus, 

 Bon.,) the Westkey Pigeon (Columba montana, Lin.,) 

 and many others. After every fifth description or 

 Biography, is an episode describing anything remark- 

 able with which the author fell in during his pere- 

 grinations, and all are written with that graphic ease, 

 and vigor for which the " backwoodman's" style is 

 so remarkable. Little can be said in praise of the 

 nomenclature. We shall not comment on the dis- 

 agreement between the generic names in English, 

 and those in Latin, but there is another inadvertence 

 which must not be passed over — giving to American 

 species the same names as different species found in 

 Britain. Thus he calls the Cipselus pelasgius 

 " Chimney Swallow ;" the Falco sparverius he calls 

 " Sparrow Hawk," and the Fringilla canadensis he 

 calls " Tree Sparrow." These should have been 



