196 ornithologist's text-book. 



are unable to obtain the Birds of Europe, this 

 analysis will be invaluable, and we are informed 

 that the subject will be continued in the subse- 

 quent numbers of the Analyst. The sketch is by 

 an eminent scientific individual, and is ably drawn 

 up. 



At p. 288, is a reply to the " Ornithological 

 Query", in Analyst, Vol. II, p. 426. With regard 

 to the first bird, we think the correspondent is mis- 

 taken, in supposing it to be the Red Lark; because 

 we believe that the bird mentioned under this name 

 by Latham, Montagu, Fleming, and others, is 

 merely a variety of the Sky Lark ( Alauda arven- 

 sisj, and that the true Red Lark (A. Pennsyl- 

 vanica) has not been met with in Britain, being an 

 exclusively Transatlantic species. Until " Querist" 

 presents us with a more minute and detailed ac- 

 count of his first bird, any conjecture as to its 

 species is useless. The second bird is, most pro- 

 bably, the Spring Oatear (Budytes vernaj. The 

 only circumstance we cannot reconcile, is its having 

 been observed amongst dwarf fruit trees in the nur- 

 series near London ; every other particular coin- 

 cides perfectly with the habits we have observed in 

 the Spring Oatear. 



On the next page is a letter to the Editor, ob- 

 jecting to the new English names introduced in the 

 list of British land birds in No. 13. We would 

 recommend the writer of this epistle to make him- 

 self a little better acquainted with the science of 

 Ornithology, before he pretends to criticise or ob- 

 ject to any innovations in that science, merely be- 

 cause they are innovations, or difficult for him to 

 attain. We need offer no further observations on 

 this letter, because, we doubt not, it will be ably 

 replied to, by the framer of the arrangement of 

 Brtish birds, to whom it applies. 



The third letter to the Editor, at p. 291, by the 



