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called Chimney Swift, Rusty crowned Falcon, and 

 Tree Finch. If these and a few other errors were 

 corrected, and the work were arranged in scientific 

 order, it might well be pronounced the most perfect 

 work of its kind ever published. One hundred 

 species are described in each volume : the fourth 

 and concluding volume, the author hopes to publish 

 in 1838 ; it will contain the remainder of the water 

 birds, and such new land birds, as may not be 

 included in the first and second volumes. The size 

 of these volumes is very pleasing : they have not the 

 bulky, unwieldy, forbidding appearance of the 

 quarto, nor the stinted form of post octavo. There 

 are two likenesses of Audubon now in the shops. 

 We have been told that that given in the translation 

 of Cuvier, published by Henderson in monthly 

 numbers, is the most faithful, and we therefore chose 

 this to bind up as the frontispiece to volume I of the 

 Ornithological Biography, and would advise our 

 readers to do the same. 



The Birds of America, by the same author, come 

 out in numbers, of which the 60th has just appeared, 

 completing the third volume. These plates are 3 ft. 

 3 in. by 2 ft. 2 in., thus giving ample scope to the 

 pictorial talents of the drawer. Nor has Audubon 

 abused this advantage as most persons would. He 

 has not crammed half a dozen or more species into 

 one plate, but has, we are happy to say, adhered 

 rigidly to the promise given in the prospectus, that 

 in no instance should more than one species be 



