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Zoologist's Text Book, by Capt. Thomas Brown, 

 F.L.S., M.W.S., Ph. S., &c. Glasgow, 1833. 2 vols, 

 12mo. Reduced from £l. Is. to 15s. 



We do not much admire this work, as it consists 

 merely of the generic and specific characters of 

 birds, on which subject we had certainly already 

 by far too many works. Nearly all the genera, 

 according to Terominck's system, and at least one 

 species of each genus are given. The first volume 

 contains the letterpress, the second the figures, 

 which latter, though generally good, are almost 

 without exception copied from other authors. 



Miscellany of Natural History. Vol. I, Parrots. 

 By Sir T. D. Lauder, Bart., aud Capt. T. Brown. 

 Edinburgh. 1833. 6s. 



This volume contains a portrait and biographi- 

 cal sketch of Audubon, consisting chiefly of ex- 

 tracts from the introduction to the Ornithological 

 Biography. The most attractive portion of the 

 book is the introduction, which contains much 

 interesting matter. The plates are not remarkably 

 good, and the descriptions necessarily short. We 

 shall give our readers an extract from the intro- 

 duction : — 



(i A tradesman, who had a shop in the Old 

 Bailey, opposite the prison, kept two Parrots, much 

 to the annoyance of his neighbours, one of which 

 was green, and the other gray. The green Parrot 

 was taught to speak when there was a knock at the 

 street door — the gray put in his word whenever the 

 bell was rung ; but they only knew two short 

 phrases of English a-piece, though they pronounced 

 these very distinctly. The house in which these 

 Thebans lived, had a projecting old-fashioned 



