26 ORNITHOLOGIST^ TEXT-BOOK, 



may we lament the premature death of this great 

 Naturalist, for he died before the completion of 

 his splendid and almost unrivalled work. The 

 four last volumes are by C. L. Bonaparte, Prince of 

 Musignano. Even those who do not possess the 

 American Ornithology, must have met with so 

 many extracts from it, that we consider it quite 

 unnecessary to give a specimen of the work. Many 

 editions have appeared — the best by Sir William 

 Jardine, with plates, coloured or uncoloured, and 

 notes by the Editor ; price £6. 6s. coloured, — 

 £3. 3s. uncoloured. A cheap edition was pub- 

 lished by Professor Jameson in 1831, with a life 

 of the author, but without plates — price 16s. 4 vols. 

 12mo. Every Ornithologist must of course possess 

 this work. 



Observations on the Nomenclature of Wilson's 

 Ornithology. By Charles Lucien Bonaparte. 8vo. 

 pp. 352. Philadelphia. 1826. 



" Of the high utility of this necessary appendix 

 to Wilson's admirable production we have already 

 spoken, while noticing several of its parts, as they 

 successively appeared in the Transactions of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 We need not, therefore, now repeat our commen- 

 dations. It will be sufficient to express our grati- 

 fication at finding that the scattered papers, in 

 which was contained so much important informa- 

 tion, have been collected into a volume, and have 

 thus been rendered more easily accessible. Devoted 

 expressly to the correction and revision of the 

 nomenclature of the American Ornithology, its 

 leading object is to place that standard work on a 

 level with the actual state of science. With this 

 view the synonymy is enlarged and continued, so 



