ornithologist's text-book. 1^5 



folks : it will open to them a new and never- failing- 

 source of amusement. The little girl, who is now 

 content to watch the Robin [Redbreast] picking 

 up crumbs at the window, and the schoolboy, 

 whose only aim it is to cany off a nest as a trophy, 

 will by means of this book be led to trace the in- 

 stinct of self-preservation, in the commonest acts 

 of the feathered tribes, and the wonderful adapta- 

 tion of their structure to the most minute circum- 

 stance of the habits and locality peculiar to each 

 class. 



" The two little volumes are illustrated with 

 numerous wood-cuts, very bold and distinct. The 

 only defect in them is the common one of the sur- 

 rounding landscape being on too small a scale for 

 the animals ; so that a hare looks of the size of a 

 roebuck, and a [Grey] Cuckoo is as big as the 

 trunk of the oak on which he is perched." — Spec- 

 tator. 



We have likewise heard good report of Mr. 

 Stanley's Familiar History of Birds from other 

 quarters, and especially from our able ornitholo- 

 gical correspondent, J. D.Weston, Esq., Surgeon, 

 of Chester. — Since writing the above, we have 

 seen these volumes, and can recommend them as 

 forming a cheap and excellent elementary work on 

 birds. 



Manuel d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Systema- 

 tique des Oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe. Par 

 C. J.Temminck. Partielll. Pans, 1835. 8vo. 7fr. 



This is a continuation of the work noticed at 

 p. 28, and contains all the new species discovered 

 in Europe since the publication of the second 

 edition of the previous volumes. Additional syno- 

 nyms are likewise added to the species included in 

 Q3 



