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bably point out at a future opportunity. The history 

 of the Ring Pigeon, the Crane, the Black Cap, the 

 Dipper, the Kingfisher, the Sparrow, &c. are full 

 of these, and may be termed " original," though that 

 they are " confirmed by actual observation" is rather 

 more doubtful. Many of the woodcuts are good — 

 some of them improvements on Bewick's, as the 

 Starling, the Yellow Bunting, and the Wall Redstart. 



A Manual of British Vertelrated Animals, or descriptions of all the 

 Animals belongingto the Classes Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, 

 and Pisces, which have hitherto been observed in the British Islands. 

 By Leonard Jenyns, 13s., 1835. 



A most welcome addition to the library of the 

 British Zoologist, and one which entirely eclipses 

 Fleming's faulty, ill arranged, and defective publi- 

 cation. It contains the most complete compendium 

 of British Ornithology hitherto published, and should 

 be possessed by all who wish to obtain a bird's-eye 

 view of the present state of our fauna. The only 

 flaw in the plan, as it seems to us, is the obtrusion 

 of subgeneric names, which are always uncalled for, 

 but more particularly as denoted by Mr. Jenyns, for 

 he has not brought them into play, but merely stuck 

 them up over the description, which is, to say the least 

 of it, unnecessary. This author has explained his 

 views in Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, 

 but they do not appear to us to rest on a sound basis. 

 The old sections of Temmink are now abandoned 



