4094 Birds. 



deaurata, viridis, sanguifer, conspersa, inequalis, Monoceros, tenax, 

 Hystrix, purpurea, papilloma, ventilabrum ; Limapoutia. The Nau- 

 tilini. 



A great number of these objects are represented in the plates, which 

 are neatly and carefully executed. We regret to observe the price at 

 which the volume is issued, since its usefulness, and therefore its va- 

 lue as a contribution to Natural History, is thus greatly diminished. 

 The letter-press, as well as the plates, would have been more agree- 

 able to the student in an 8vo form, and by judicious economy might 

 have been produced at less than a third of the present price. Very 

 high prices for books always cut both ways : the buyer and seller 

 suffer equally, so that it is politic on all accounts to eschew them. If 

 the expense of getting up the book be urged as a plea for its price, the 

 plea is untenable, because the expensive getting up was needless. 



Migratory Birds in the Isle of Wight. — The following are the dates of the arrival 

 of the summer birds of passage, so far as they have been observed at Bembridge dur- 

 ing the last four years : — 



1850. 1851. 1852. 1853. 



ChirT-charT March 29 March 24 March 31 March 30 



Wheatear April 4 April 4 30 



Yellow Wagtail 12 



Wryneck 13 



Blackcap March 31* April 16 13 



Kedstart April 7 8 April 19 



Willow Wren 11 April 13 13 7 



Swallow 13 11 9 6 



Sand Martin 18 15 15 7 



Cuckoo 16 14 18 



Whitethroat 18 



House Martin April 20 15 April 21 April 15 



Nightingale 8 13 14 15 



Swift May 3 May 14 



Fly-catcher 5 



— A. G. More ; Bembridge, September 10, 1853. 



Occurrence of Montagu's Harrier (Circus cineraceus) in Woolwich Marshes. — I 

 have a fine old female of Montagu's harrier, that was shot in Woolwich Marshes on 

 the 16th of August last. — James Green, Naturalist ; 1, East Road, City Road, Octo- 

 ber 11,1853. 



* Only a solitary individual was seen at this unusually early date: no others made 

 their appearance until a fortnight later. 



