94 ornithologist's text-book. 



various lectures on animals, delivered before the 

 Worcestershire Natural History Society. We 

 earnestly recommend all the above articles to the 

 attention of our readers. 



Ornithology seemed to have been entirely forgot- 

 ten in the first part of Vol. II, nor is there a single 

 article on that subject until that " on making the 

 English generic names of birds correspond to the 

 Latin ones," by ourselves. In this paper we have 

 suggested that each genus should have a generic 

 name peculiar to itself, in English as well as in Latin, 

 instead of the lax and unscientific mode of giving 

 the same generic name to half a dozen wholly dis- 

 tinct genera. We will, however, refer our readers to 

 the article in question, the principles of which cer- 

 tainly deserve the attention of the scientific Natural- 

 ist. At p. 269 is a review of Mudie' s excellent little 

 work, the Natural History of Birds (reviewed in our 

 p. 73)- The reviewer here supposes that Mudie 

 wishes to class the Barefaced Crow fCorvus nudir- 

 ostris; C.frugilegus, Linn.) and Blue Tit in the same 

 genus, which would indeed be a gross violation of 

 the laws of Nature. From what that Mudie has 

 said, the reviewer has gathered this, we are totally 

 at a loss to divine. — At p. 305 we find some excel- 

 lent "remarks on vernacular and scientific ornitho- 

 logical nomenclature," on the same principles as 

 our article at p. 238. In this paper several new 

 names, both Latin and English, are proposed. At 

 p. 317 is an article by Mr. Strickland, objecting 

 to our alteration in the English nomenclature of 

 birds. Mr. Strickland's arguments are, however, 

 few and weak. Amongst the Critical Notices of 

 New Publications in No. 11, are reviews of Hewit- 

 son's British Oology (noticed at our p. 87), Jar* 

 dine's Game Birds, and Rennie's Faculties of 

 Birds. At p. 394 is a long and detailed acv 

 count of the " Habits of the Brake Nightingale 



