Catalogue of Flowerless Plants of Great Britain. 267 



Meliphaga tenuriostris of Vig-. and Horsf. ;) Coturnix, Hemipodius, 

 jEgialitis, (a name proposed by Vieillot for a family among- the Gral- 

 latores, here used as a generic title for the form of Charadrius re- 

 presented by the little ring-dotterel Ch. hiaticula ;) Himantopus, of 

 which the species described, H.palmatus, Gould, is extremely interest- 

 ing, as exhibiting a complete palmation or web between the toes, and 

 thus running into the avosets, Recurvirostra, Oxyura, and Sterna. 



Catalogue of the Cellulares or Flowerless Plants of Great Britain, or 

 those included in the Linncean class Cryptogamia ; compiled from 

 Sir W. J. Hooker's English Flora, Vol. V. ; Sir J. E. Smith's 

 English Flora, Vol. IV. ; Mackay's Flora Hibernica ; Henslow's 

 Catalogue of British Plants, and other sources. By W. A. Leigh- 

 ton, B. A., F. B. S. Ed. 8vo. London, Longman, 1837. 

 This sheet, as indicated by the title, is a mere catalogue, which has 

 been deemed necessary on account of " the increased and increasing 

 study of the Cryptogamic tribes." It is intended to facilitate the in- 

 terchange of species, to afford a convenient index for the herbarium, 

 and, if interleaved^ to serve as a book for memoranda, regarding some 

 of the rarer species. For the above purposes this catalogue cannot 

 fail to be useful, and, being printed on a single large sheet, it can be 

 transmitted by mail at the charge of a single postage, and afterwards 

 cut and folded, as its possessor may find most convenient. The price 

 of the sheet is sixpence. 



A History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory, including 

 their organization, habits, and relations, remarks on Classification 

 and Nomenclature ; an account of the principal organs of birds, 

 and observations relative to practical Ornithology. Illustrated 

 by numerous engravings. By William Macgillivray. Vol. I. 

 Svo. London, 1837. 



The work bearing the above title is a thick octavo volume of 631 

 pages, having for its object " to lay before the public, descriptions of 

 the birds of Great Britain, more extended and, if possible, more cor- 

 rect than any previously offered." * We do not wish to appear unne- 

 cessarily critical regarding the manner in which Mr Macgillivray has 

 accomplished this object, but we should not act fairly to our subscri- 

 bers were we to say that it is done successfully. The writing ap- 

 pears to us an affected attempt to imitate the styles of Isaac Walton 

 and of Audubon, which, being extremely peculiar, can only be relished 



* Preface. 



