ornithologist's text-book. 51 



Ornithologie Proven$ale, par Polydore Roux. 

 1828. Marseilles. Each Livraison 7s. 6cL 



This work consists of descriptions and coloured 

 figures of all the resident birds of Provence, en- 

 tirely omitting those which are migratory. It is 

 to consist of fifty parts. We are not aware whe- 

 ther or not it is brought to a conclusion, but what 

 we have seen are good. 



Illustrations of Zoology, by James Wilson, Esq. 

 Blackwood, Edinburgh. Cadell, London. Atlas 4to. 

 Each part 16s. 



For a review of part of this work, we shall make 

 no apology for extracting that which appeared in 

 the Magazine of Natural History for 1831 (VoL 

 IV, p. 261) both because it will serve as a review 

 of the whole work, and because we entirely agree 

 in the opinions therein expressed : — 



" These Nos. (viii and ix) complete the first 

 volume of this work, which, in our estimation, is 

 too splendid and costly to have much, we had al- 

 most said any, influence in forwarding the study 

 of Natural History. Mr. Wilson writes so well 

 and agreeably, that it is to be wished he would 

 undertake to oompose a book of size and price 

 moderate enough to permit of its circulation among 

 those lovers Gf Nature who (happily circumstanced) 

 have to labour for their luxuries, and have no no- 

 tion to barter their moderate gains merely for fine 

 paper and print, and pretty engravings. The ap- 

 probation of the class of readers alluded to is, 

 perhaps, as gratifying as the praises of the saloon, 

 [and far more so in our opinion.] 



No. viii commences with a spirited and elegant 

 figure of the grey American Wolf, the finest plate, 



