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ciety, we came to the conclusion that the volume 

 must be a new botch- work of Rennie's. But, 

 judge of our disappointment, when we discovered 

 it to be neither more nor less than the old Archi- 

 tecture of Birds, brought out in a new shape ! 

 We had anticipated the inconceivable pleasure of 

 cutting up his masonry with as much diligence as 

 he usually employs in pasting them together. Mais 

 rCimporte ! we have resigned ourselves to our lot, 

 and must do ourselves the justice to say, that we 

 bore our unappreciable loss with the philosophic 

 and praiseworthy magnanimity which became us 

 as purveyors in the cause of Nature. 



We understand that a work called the Ornitho- 

 logical Guide is in the press, and will probably 

 appear before long. 



Some Remarks on our Review of Hewitsoris. 

 " British Oology"", at p. 87. — A short time since, 

 we forwarded, to our friend Wm. C. Hewitson, of 

 Bristol, the proof sheets of our Text-book ; that 

 gentleman objected to some points of our review of 

 his British Oology, and intimated, that if it were 

 published as there stated, he should be compelled 

 to reply to it with more warmth than he should 

 wish. Now as nothing could be further from our 

 desire than to give offence, however slight, to any 

 of our friends, and more especially to an ornitho- 

 logical one, we proposed to Mr. Hewitson to print, 

 at our own expense, any reply that he might wish 

 to make to our notice. The result is that we have 

 received the following remarks, addressed, it will 

 be observed, to our readers : — 



" As Mr. Neville Wood has not only offered me 

 a page in the Supplement of his Text-book, to reply 

 to some remarks at p. 89, in his review of my Bri- 

 tish Oology, but has also proposed to print the 



