THE ORNITHOLOGICAL GUIDE. 169 



its depredations in the garden are very considerable, 

 and currants, gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries, 

 and peas, seldom come amiss to the young birds. 

 As long as any individual of the human race is to 

 be seen in the garden, the Missel Thrush will seldom 

 venture its precious life there, but the enemy is no 

 sooner out of sight, than it appears from its retreat, 

 and feasts at its leisure until again disturbed." The 

 nomenclature adopted by the author is almost per- 

 fect, and the plan is that which we have ourselves 

 contended for at length in the earlier part of this 

 little work. It would have been better, we think, to 

 have given the volume and page of the works in the 

 synonyms, and likewise to refer to Jenyns, and 

 Mudie, in preference to Latham, whose works may 

 now safely be left on the hands of the Bookseller. 



The Animal Kingdom ; of George Cuvier, translated by Captain 

 Thomas Brown ; Monthly Numbers, Is. 



This is, we think, the first work of real utility in 

 which our author has engaged, and the present 

 undertaking is one calculated equally to reflect 

 credit on its editor, and confer important advantages 

 on the Naturalist, What is added is duly dis- 

 tinguished from what is translated, by a difference of 

 type, which greatly enhances the value of the work. 

 The plates, two of which accompany each monthly 

 number, are executed admirably considering the 

 price of the work, the Quadrupeds and Insects, are 



