200 ornithologist's text-book. 



number of parts being published ; but an inspec- 

 tion of the latest Nos. only serves to confirm the 

 opinion we formerly expressed of the publication, 

 at p. 95. For want of a better work, on the same 

 scale, and with colored plates, it is, nevertheless, 

 we regret to say, useful to the student. — As to 

 Mrs. Perrott's wretched Selections of British Birds, 

 the work is beneath criticism, and we have never 

 taken the needless trouble of inquiring whether a 

 second part of it ever dared to show its face. We 

 are informed, that if our authoress should chance 

 to meet with our little Text-book, we may expect a 

 "Raven's quill" from her; but, unless she can 

 manage Raven's quills with greater success than 

 she has exhibited in her delineation of that bird, 

 we have little to fear ! Mrs. Perrott may, for ought 

 we know, be an accomplished woman, but it is a 

 pity but either she or her friends could have dis- 

 tinguished between the talents required for draw- 

 ing as an amusement and as a profession. — No. xv 

 of the Analyst will appear on the first of April. 



The two gigantic ornithological periodicals now 

 alone remain to be noticed. All we can at present 

 say of them, however, is that of Audubon's Birds 

 of America, No. LX has lately appeared ; this 

 series of plates, and the accompanying letterpress 

 — entitled Ornithological Biography — will be com- 

 pleted in the early part of 1838. — Of Gould's unri- 

 valled Birds of Europe, thirteen parts are pub- 

 lished, and we understand that nearly the whole 

 number of copies struck off (300) are subscribed 

 for. 



In the papers, we have lately seen advertised, 

 the first volume of an "Entertaining Library of 

 Natural History", entitled Architecture of Birds, 

 price Is. Now, from the title of this book, and 

 from the circumstance of its being published under 

 the superintendence of the Useful Knowledge So- 



