358 Supplement to the Flora Metropolitana. 



avosets, and Phalacracorax punctatus, a cormorant of gray and white 

 plumage, and orange-coloured legs and feet. 



The " Icones" contain Eurylaimus Dalhousice, of which Mr 

 Gould has formed a subgenus, Crossodera. Mr Swainson, in his 

 Synopsis of Genera, given in Lardner's Cyclopaedia, has also thought 

 this necessary, and has named the former Psarisomus, from its " sup- 

 posed" resemblance to a Psaris. We are not sure which of these 

 names has the right of priority, but we are sure that the bird in 

 question has little resemblance to Psaris, and the bill appears to us 

 to be as much developed in form as in the other green or gray tinted 

 species from continental and alpine India, — Todvs multicolor, describ- 

 ed by Gould in the proceedings of the Zoological Society, and now we 

 believe figured for the first time. We saw this species, in 1825, 

 in M. Temminck's collection at Amsterdam. — Ianthocincla phce- 

 nicea, a beautiful and brightly-coloured species from alpine India. 

 — Calliope pectoralis. — Microura squamata, — both from Hima- 

 laya. — Paradoxornis Jlaviroslris, — See Mag. of Zool. and Bot. i. 

 p. 64. — Pteroglossus Goiddii, a species from the Brazils, and 

 named by M. Natterer in honour of our author. — Numida vultu- 

 rina, Hardw. a very fine species from Western Africa. — Ortyx plu- 

 mifera, one of the most beautiful species yet described. The head 

 is adorned with two narrow feathers nearly three inches in length, 

 forming a graceful bending crest. The other plumage is richly 

 blended shades of gray, brown, and chestnut ; and the bird is be- 

 sides remarkable in shewing the character and markings of plu- 

 mage which we perceive on the flanks of the red-legged partridges. 

 Three specimens were procured in California by the late David 

 Douglas. — Cursorius rufus, from the Indian islands, intermediate 

 between C. Asiaticus and Temminckii. 



Supplement to the Flora Metropolitana, or Botanical Rambles within 

 thirty miles of London. By Daniel Cooper, A. L. S. 12mo. 

 1837. Highley, London. 



A little work of 36 pages, giving localities which were omitted 

 (or at the time of its publication undiscovered) from Mr Cooper's 

 former volume, noticed at p. 281, Vol. i. of this Magazine. The 

 greater portion of the pages is, however, occupied by a full index to 

 the whole work, containing the English and scientific names, and 

 indicating by contractions " the time of flowering, and colour of the 

 flowers of the pheenogamous plants." And, in conclusion, a short 

 table is given of the elevations of the principal localities round Lon- 

 don, above the level of the Thames, at Trinity high-water-mark- 



