50 ornithologist's text-book, 



without finding the article we had originally in- 

 tended to refer to. The number of individuals that 

 this invaluable Magazine has turned to the study 

 of Nature, must be very great, and, without its 

 agency, what an enormous number of facts would 

 never have seen the light ! The Magazine is, how- 

 ever, in our opinion, too small and too dear (50 

 pages for 2s.) As the work is so popular and 

 widely circulated, we think Mr. Loudon could 

 well afford to give his readers at least twice the 

 number of pages at the same cost, thus giving two 

 volumes in the year instead of one. We also sug- 

 gest that the reviews of new works should be more 

 detailed, those in the Magazine of Natural History 

 being generally very meagre. — Every Ornithologist 

 must of course possess the whole of this work, 

 which is, we hope, already in the hands of by far 

 the greater number of our readers* 



Zoological Journal. Edited by N. A. Vigors, 

 Esq. and other eminent Naturalists. 1824 — 1835. 

 5 vols. 8vo. 



This Journal may here be mentioned, although 

 we do not much admire it, nor do we think it has 

 much to do with the rise and progress of Ornitho- 

 logy ; the papers on this subject being " few and 

 far between." The scientific Ornithologist should, 

 however, by no means be without it, on account of 

 the valuable papers it contains by two of our most 

 eminent Ornithologists — Swainson and Vigors. 

 Some of the supplemental plates are very beauti- 

 ful, but the price both of these and of the letter- 

 press entirely prevents its having anything like a 

 wide circulation, and, even at this price, it does 

 not seem to answer; as, from 1829 to the present 

 time, only a single volume has appeared ! 



