ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA, 



Notwithstanding the author's vigilance, some nominal, and a 

 few other typographical, errors have escaped him; the reader 

 will be kind enough to correct them from the following notices. 



In addition to the Ornithological publications mentioned in 

 various parts of this work, another ought to be noticed lately 

 begun under the superintendance of Sir Wm. Jardine, bait, 

 and P. J. Selby, esq. with the co-operation of many other 

 gentlemen eminent in the science. It is entitled Illustrations of 

 Ornithology, and is designed, in the first instance, to display the 

 newest groups and newest species, and afterwards al! the species 

 which have already been described. The Plates are to be, co- 

 loured correctly after nature, and are also to be accompanied 

 with scientific letter-press descriptions. It is in royal 4t0. 

 One number has already appeared. 



Page 6. If any additional evidence were wanting to prove 

 that angling is one of the worst of sports, a painful instance has 

 been lately supplied to me. Walking on the banks of the canal 

 in Forest-Hill wood, I saw an angler who had just caught a 

 small pike about a foot long; but not being able to detach the 

 hook from the throat of the fish, he was obliged to pass his 

 finger under the gills, and to cut out the hook from the throat with 

 a knife; this being done, the fish still continued to breathe. I 

 urged the angler to kill the fish at once ; but no, the animal 

 was to remain in agony, because, while it remained alive, 

 putrefaction would not take place! 



Page 14, line 10 from the bottom, for dila'ca read dilatata. 



Page 22, lines 5, 15, and the last, for Taylor-bird, read Tailor- 

 bird ; in page 248, line 6 from the bottom, make the same cor- 

 rection; and again in page 323, lines 1 from the top, and 6 and 

 7 from the bottom, make the same corrections, as well as 



