194 ornithologist's text-book. 



hedged in on either side with excellent practical 

 observations on this hitherto neglected subject. As 

 a corrected reprint of this list appeared in a subse- 

 quent part of the volume, we defer making particu- 

 lar mention of this paper for the present. Passing 

 over a host of highly interesting and valuable 

 scientific and literary articles, as not bearing on 

 our immediate purpose, we arrive at " A Retro- 

 spect of the Literature of British Ornithology", 

 anonymous, but written, we happen to know, by 

 a learned and talented Physician, with whom we 

 have the honor of corresponding. The article con- 

 sists of slight notices of works on Ornithology, and 

 especially British Ornithology, commencing, as we 

 have likewise done, in our Ornithologists Text- 

 book, with the valuable production of Willughby. 

 The writer has made an interesting chapter of it, 

 though not a very complete catalogue, and, with 

 all our respect and esteem for the highly-gifted 

 author, we find it our duty to observe, that truth 

 and justice has occasionally been sacrificed to 

 effect, as, for instance, in the notice of Morris's 

 Guide, at p. 99. Now, in our opinion, it was 

 wholly unnecessary to make any mention of this 

 little affair, "blind", or not blind; and we are 

 convinced that the writer would not have noticed 

 the pamphlet, had it not afforded him scope for 

 concluding with an effective paragraph. To this 

 we decidedly object, but candour compels us to ad- 

 mit, that such instances are of rare occurrence in 

 this Retrospect. 



At p. 197, the list of British birds, before alluded 

 to, is corrected and completed, in an article headed, 

 " The Birds of Britain, Systematically Arranged." 

 As in the former list, so also in the one now offered 

 to our notice, the catalogue is, very properly, fenced 

 in with principles, on which the Fauna is founded. 

 The English nomenclature is almost unexception^ 



