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Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. 8vo. 

 Dictionnaire Classique oVHistoire Naturelle. 



Annates des Sciences Naturelles. 8vo. monthly. 

 Bulletin des Sciences Naturelles. 8vo. monthly. 



These and many other Journals and Transactions 

 of learned Societies that might be mentioned, fre- 

 quently contain valuable Essays on Ornithology, 

 and some of them at least should be possessed by 

 the Ornithologist. It is, we conceive, unnecessary 

 to make a particular analysis of their contents. 

 Many of them have now extended to several 

 volumes. 



Werner's Nomenclature of Colours ; Edited by 

 Patrick Syme. Edinburgh. 1821, Thin 8vo. 



Every Ornithologist should possess this volume, 

 especially as it is the nomenclature adopted by 

 Selby, in his splendid Illustrations of British 

 Ornithology. There should of course be a fixed 

 nomenclature in Ornithology, and Syme's Werner 

 is the best with which we are acquainted. 



A New Work on the Smaller British Birds. 



Our friend Mr, Blyth, of Tooting, Surrey, informs 

 us that the first number of a work on the smaller 

 British birds is to appear on the first of October, 

 by himself and Mr. Fowler. We believe it was 

 originally intended that each number should com- 

 prise a family, but this plan was afterwards aban- 

 doned, and each No. will now contain four coloured 

 plates; the plumage of the old and young of each 

 species will be particularly attended to. Full and 



