100 Magazine of Natural History. 



uniting it to the genus Cooperia." Gr. Bulbs were sent from Texas by Mr 

 Drummond. 



The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, 

 Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology. Conducted by J. C. 

 Loudon. Lond. Jan — April, 1836. 8vo. 



This was, perhaps is to many, an entertaining and a useful miscellany, though 

 latterly it has been declining in the interest and in the ,value of its communica- 

 tions. Such a large collection of facts, however, in relation especially to British 

 Zoology and Botany, is brought within its volumes, that they must necessarily 

 be consulted by every one who in future undertakes the history of our Fauna or 

 Flora •' but we will hint that much caution is necessary in the consultation, for 

 the statements often rest on the testimony of those who have obviously begun 

 to communicate the result of their researches before a sufficient experience has 

 taught them all the difficulties and deceptions to which even a field-naturalist 

 who attempts no more than to note down his observations is liable. With 

 the present year the ninth volume commenced, and four numbers of it are before 

 us, whose botanical and zoological contents we shall merely indicate. 



I. Zoology. 



Rylands on the Quinary or Natural System of M'Leay, Swainson, Vigors, 

 &c. pp. 130 and 173. Mr R. does not seem to us competent to discuss the 

 very difficult question he has ventured upon Wood on the propriety of alter- 

 ing established scientific names in Natural History, p. 138 Waterton on 



the Brown or Gray Rat (Mus decumanus,) p. 1. A clever sketch, but too much 



interwoven with politics and satire. Moss on the habits of a domesticated 



White Rat, p. 182 On the habits of the Robin Red-breast, p. 6 Ord 



on the Cow Bunting of the United States of America, p. 57. — — Waterton on 



the Titmouse and the Woodpecker, p. 74 Waterton on the Habits of the 



Jay, p. 187. Taylor on the Birds of the Alleghany Mountain Range, p. 72. 



On the arrival of the summer Birds of Passage in the neighbourhood of 



Carlisle during the spring of 1835 ; to which are added observations on some of 

 the scarcer Birds obtained in the same vicinity from November 10, 1834, to 



November 10, 1835, p. 185 Templeton's Catalogue of Irish Crustacea, 



Myriapoda, and Arachnoida, p. 9.- — —Johnston on Astacilla longicornis, p. 80 : 



and on Chordrocanthus lophii, p. 81 Johnston on Limapontia nigra, p. 79. 



Forbes's Notices of Species of Naticidae, p. 191. The figures illustrative 



of this paper are very unsatisfactory. In Natica monilifera, Mr F. has never found 

 more than one tentaculum : has the male organ of generation not been mistaken 



for such? Johnston on Psamathe fusca, p. 14, a new genus of Annelides; 



and on Planaria subauricula, p. 16, a supposed new species of the genus. 



II. Botany. 



Watson on the construction of Maps for illustrating the distribution of Plants, 



p. 17. Walsh on Symphysis in Plants, p. 83 Gardiner on the uses of 



the Nectary and Corolla in'Plants, p. 195. — — Henslow's Enumeration of Spe- 

 cies and Varieties of Plants which have been deemed British, but whose indige- 



nousness to Britain is considered to be questionable, p. 88 Bromfield's 



notice of Habitats of some rare British Plants, p. 85. Mallet on the seed- 



