144 THE ORNITHOLOGICAL GUIDE. 



devised, it would seem, for the occasion. We are 

 at a loss to know why the work was ever published, 

 if to gratify the author's vanity, it has certainly 

 proved in that as in all other particulars a complete 

 failure. The price was originally 15s. — it may now 

 be had for 2s. and is worth no more. 



Outline of the Smaller British Birds, for the use of Ladies and Young 

 Persons, By Robert Slaney, Esq. IVJ.P., 2nd edition, 4s. 6d. 

 1833. 



A right pleasant little work, and well adapted for 

 those to whom it is addressed, among whom, it is, 

 doubtless, popular. The greater part is culled from 

 other authors, and this has been very judiciously 

 performed. The story of the Pied Oystercatcher, 

 {Ostralega maculosa}) shows that our Ornithological 

 M.P. is also, in some of his researches, a practical 

 observer. 



The Zoologist's Text-Book; embracing the characters of the Classes, 

 Orders and Genera, of almost the whole of the Ajiimal Kingdom. 

 By Captain Thomas Brown, 2 vols. 1833. 



The first volume consists of letter-press, the second 

 of uncolored steel cuts. Whoever wishes to throw 

 away 15s. cannot do better than procure Brown's 

 Zoological Text-Book. If instead of attempting to 

 grasp at the whole of the Animal Kingdom, the 

 author had confined himself to some one class, he 

 would have produced a work of more value, though 

 that is not saying much. 



