﻿21 6 ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS. 



Neither the plates or the pages of this work are num- 

 bered ; but there are thirty-two coloured plates of Javan- 

 ese birds, with ample descriptions. 



Horsfield. Systematic Arrangement and Description of Birds 

 from the Island of Java. Inserted in the Linnaean Trans- 

 actions, vol. xiii. 



Gould. A Century of Birds, hitherto unfigured, from the 

 Himalaya Mountains. By John Gould, A.L.S. Lon- 

 don, 1832. 1 vol. folio. 



The nomenclature and descriptions are stated to be by 

 N. A. Vigors, Esq. M.P. There are eighty plates, some 

 of them well drawn, and all very highly coloured. 



Hardwicke and Gray. Illustrations of Indian Zoology. 

 Folio. (The plates only have yet appeared.) 



3. Africa. 



Le Vaillant. Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de l'Afrique. 

 Par Francis Le Vaillant. Paris, 1799-1808. 6 vol. 4to. 



The number of plates in this valuable work are exactly 300. 

 The figures are drawn , with a very few exceptions, by artists 

 who had no scientific knowledge of a bird: they are, conse- 

 quently, stiff, unnatural, and very inferior ; nor should they 

 be confounded with those executed for the other works of 

 this author by the celebrated Barrabaud. The great merit 

 of this work lies in the letter-press, in the observations on 

 the natural groups, and in the account of the manners and 

 habits of the different species. A few of these latter, how- 

 ever, in the two first volumes, are not natives of Africa, but 

 have been introduced for the purpose of facilitating compa- 

 rison. 



Riippell. Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichin Afrika. Von 

 Eduard Riip pell. Vogel Bearbeitet von Dr. Med. Ph. J. 

 Cretzschmar. Frankfurt am Main, 1826. Folio. 



The ornithological portion is paged separately, and con- 

 tains thirty -six plates and descriptions. The former are 

 very respectable lithographs, and appear faithfully coloured. 

 The letter-press is in German, but the specific characters in 

 Latin. 



4. America. 



Wilson. American Ornithology ; or, Natural History of the 

 Birds of the United States. 9 vol. 4to. Philadelphia, 1 SOS- 

 ISM. With 76 coloured plates. 



Wilson. The American Ornithology of Alexander Wilson, 

 with a Continuation by C. L. Bonaparte. The illustrative 

 notes and life of Wilson by Sir William Jardine, Bart. 

 London and Edinburgh, 1832* 3 vol. 8vo. 



