48 ornithologist's text-book. 



Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Mouches, par 

 R. P. Lesson. 8vo. £4. 5s. 17 livraisons. Paris. 



Histoire Naturelle des Colihris, par R. P. Les- 

 son. 8vo. Paris. £S. 5s. 



Histoire Naturelle des Trochilidees, par R. P. 

 Lesson. 14 livraisons. £3. 10s. 



Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis. 5s. 

 per livraison, par R. P. Lesson. 



Nouveau Recueil de Planches color tees d J Ois- 

 eaux, par C. J. Temminck. 91 livraisons. 4to. 

 £35. 1820. 



All these expensive works, which are mostly 

 Monographs, are illustrated by beautiful coloured 

 plates, and should find a place on the shelf of every 

 philosophic Ornithologist. — With regard to the 

 Planches Coloriees of Temminck, we have deviated 

 from our usual plan of giving the several works of 

 each Naturalist together. In this case it could not 

 have been otherwise. The work is somewhat ex- 

 pensive, but, in our opinion, not dear, as the 

 figures are characteristic, and well coloured. 



Manuel d'Ornithologie, ou description des genres 

 et des principales especes d' oiseaux; par R. P. 

 Lesson. Paris. 2 vols. 18mo. 1828. 7s. 6d. 



Although Lesson's Manuel d^Ornithologie is by 

 no means so useful a work as that of the same title 

 by Temminck (reviewed p. 28), yet the Ornitholo- 

 gist should not be without it. Complete works on 

 the birds of any one country are always of more 

 use than those which include some species from 

 all parts of the world. Nor do we understand what 

 M. Lesson means by "principales especes d 'ois- 

 eaux."'' The work commences with a synopsis of 

 the principal systems which have been promulgated. 



