4G2 Magazine of Natural History. 



Periodicals — British. 

 Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, New Series. September 

 and October 1837. (Continued from page 360.) 



I. — Zoology. 



Observations on the opposableg|Power of the Thumb in certain 

 Mammals, considered as a zoological character; and on the natural af- 

 finities which subsist between the Bimana, Quadrumana, and Pedi- 



mana, by W. Ogilby, Esq. p. 449 and5i7- Description of the 



membranes of the Uterine Foetus of the Kangaroo, by R. Owen, 



Esq., p. 48] Waterhouse on the Palm Squirrel, p. 496. 



Weissenborn on the Habits and Economy of the common 



Fox, p. 507- Some remarks on the Plumage of Birds, by Edw. 



Blyth, Esq., p. 477- Notes on the Pern or Honey Buzzard, 



by the same, p. 536 G. R. Gray on a new Subgenus, and some 



remarks on birds belonging to the family Laniadae, p. 487 



Gould on some species of the genus Motacilla of Linnaeus, p. 459. 

 Characters of a new Form in the Fringillidae, with a descrip- 

 tion of the only species yet referable to it, by Andrew Smith, 



M. D. p. 535 Letter from Dr Clarke of Ipswich to William 



Yarrell, Esq. noticing the recent occurrence of the Fry of a spe- 

 cies of Hemiramphus on the coast of Suffolk ; with some additional 



observations by Mr Yarrell, p. 505. Description of a new 



British Wasp, with an account of its Development from the Larva 

 to the Imago, by W. E. Shuckard, Esq. p. 490 — — Illustrated 

 Zoological Notices, by Edw. Charlesworth, viz. on the Argonaut, 

 p. 526 ; on the head of a Crocodile, (? Stenseosaurus) lately discover- 

 ed at Whitby, p. 532 ; and on a Form of cephalopodous Shells con- 

 necting the genera Nautilus and Ammonites, p. 533 Stutch- 



bury's Additional Remarks on the genus Cypraecassis, p. 470 



J. E. Gray on a new genus of Land Shells, p. 484. Miscellaneous 



Zoological Notices, by J. B. Harvey, p. 473. 



There is no botanical communication in either number, but the 

 usual supply of short notices. We have to thank the editor for the fa- 

 vourable notice he has been pleased to take of our labours ; the Ma- 

 gazine of Zoology and Botany was neither begun in rivalry, nor 

 from a wish to injure in any way the Magazine of Natural History, 

 for the plan and object of the two works were at first essentially 

 different, and there is still a specific distinction, which a careful rea- 

 der will be at no loss to perceive. 



