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Art. III. Additional Notices of Books. 



Ornithologia Nova : or a new General History 

 of Birds, extracted from the best authorities in 

 various languages, both antient and modern, 2 vols. 

 12mo 4 Birmingham, printed by T. Warren. 1743. 



We never saw this production, nor had we so 

 much as heard of it, until we were supplied with 

 the following account of it, by Edwin Lees, Esq.,* 

 M.E.S., Honorary Curator of the Worcestershire 

 Natural History Society, in a letter dated Dec. 27, 

 1835 :— 



" No author's name is appended to the Ornitho- 

 logia Nova, though reference is continually made 

 to Willughby, Ray, Derham, Sibbald, Johnson, 

 and others, and copious extracts are given from 

 works of travels. It is, however, chiefly remark- 

 able for i four hundred figures' — woodcuts — appa- 

 rently made for the occasion, and, though the 

 majority are execrable, a few are really spirited 

 and characteristic. In execution they will of 

 course bear no comparison with any cut of the 

 present day. Amidst a good deal of rubbish and 



* To the kind attention of Mr. Lees, we are likewise indebted 

 for a copy of the " Proceedings at the Second Anniversary Festival 

 of the Worcestershire Nat. Hist. Soc.,with the address of the Council, 

 delivered by Chas. Hastings, M.D., the speech of the Right Hon. 

 Lord Lyttelton ; report of the speeches at the dinner, names of the 

 officers and council, list of donations, &c." — N. Ws 



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