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coloured figures are sufficiently exact, in most instances, for 



determining the species.) 

 Latham. Index Ornithologicus. London, 1790. 2 vol. 4to. 



(A Latin Synopsis of the last, without plates.) 

 Latham. General History of Birds. Winchester, 1821 — 1824. 



10 vol. 4to.* 



Shaw. General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Com- 

 menced by Dr. Shaw, and continued by Mr. Stevens. Lon- 

 don, 1809 — 1826, 8vo. (The birds occupy from vol. 7 to 

 14, each vol. being in two parts. The plates are plain and 

 mostly copied from other works, but tolerably engraved. 



Lesson. Manuel d' Ornithologie, ou Description des Genres 

 et des principales Especes d'Oiseaux. Par R. P. Lesson. 

 Paris, 1828. 2 vol. 12mo. 



Vieillot. Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique des Trois 

 Regnes de la Nature. Ornithologie, par l'Abbe Bonnaterre, 

 etcontinuee par L. P. Vieillot. Paris, 1823. 3 vol. 4to. 



(173.) Under the head of partial systems^ we in- 

 clude monographs of particular groups, either published 

 separately, or in the transactions of learned societies. 

 2. Miscellaneous descriptions, incorporated with other 

 subjects ; and, 3. Collections of figures and descriptions 

 of select ornithological subjects. Many of the former, 

 and some of the latter, equally belong to our fifth divi- 

 sion ; but they are here noticed that the student, upon 

 merely looking over one of the lists, may not suppose 

 they have been altogether omitted. The most valuable 

 collection of monographs of certain genera is contained 

 in the volume of Wagler before alluded to : it is ren- 

 dered, however, defective by the absence of specific 

 characters, after the manner of Linnaeus and the best 

 modern zoologists, while the unnecessary and injudi- 

 cious changes that have been made in some of the best ge- 

 neric and specific names, and the artificial nature of nearly 

 all the new divisions, shows that industry is the author's 

 chief qualification ; on the other hand, the descriptions 

 of the species, although diffuse and laboured, are very 

 accurate, and the work is not only valuable, but indis- 

 pensable to every systematic ornithologist. M. Tern. 



* The same plates are used for this work as were inserted "m the General 

 Synapsis ; but several others are added. 



