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interesting popular descriptions of each will also 

 be given ; these will be written by Mr. Blyth. 

 Each number is to cost half-a-crown, and each plate 

 to contain one, two, or three figures, as circum- 

 stances will admit. If the work is well conducted, 

 of which indeed we have little doubt, it will be 

 very useful. We should have liked it better, had 

 the original plan, of including a family in each 

 number, been adhered to, but this was scarcely 

 practicable. We are glad to find that the princi- 

 ples of English Nomenclature, inculcated by us 

 in the Analyst (reviewed p. 93), will be followed 

 in this work. Mr. Blyth has kindly submitted to 

 us a list of the birds he intends to figure and de- 

 scribe, with their Latin and English names. It 

 includes nearly all the birds belonging to the order 

 Insessores of Vigors. 



Since writing the above, we have learned that 

 this work will not be commenced for some months 

 to come. — Jan. 11, 1836. 



END OF PART I. 



