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venteen numbers, containing eighty-six plates. Paris, 1829. 

 1 vol. 8vo. 



Lesson. Histoire Naturelle des Colibris, suivie d'un Supple- 

 ment a 1' Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Mouches. Thir- 

 teen numbers, containing sixty-six plates. Paris, 1831. 

 1 vol. 8vo. 



Lesson. Les Trochilidees, ou les Colibris et les Oiseaux 

 Mouches. Fourteen numbers, containing seventy plates. 



j Paris, 1832-1834. 



We have already alluded to these works, which we class 

 under this head, as the whole of the humming birds are 

 restricted in their geographic range to the continent of 

 America. 



Kittlitz. Uber Einige Vogel von Chili, beobachtet im Marz 

 und Anfang, April, 1827. Von F. H. von Kittlitz, natur- 

 forscher der Expedition der Semavin. 



The birds that are described and figured with so much 

 spirit in this valuable and interesting paper (which we have 

 only seen in a detached form) are as follows : — 



Phitotoma silens. Synallaxis iEgithalo'ides. 



Pleroptochos rubicula. Opetiorynchos rupestris. ] 



1 albicollis. Muscicapa parulus. 



■ ■ megapodius.* pyrope. 



Troglodytes paradoxus. Fringilla diuca, Mollini. 



Synallaxis humicola. Crypturus perdicarius. t 



Azara. Voyages dans l'Amerique Meridionale. Par Don 

 F£lix de Azara, Commissaire et Commandant des limites 

 Espagnoles dans le Paraguay, depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801. 

 Publies d'apres les Manuscrits del'Auteur, par C. A. Walck- 

 enaer. Suivis de 1' Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux du Para- 

 guay et de La Plata, par le meme auteur, traduite, d'apres 

 Toriginal Espagnol, et augmentee d'un grand nombre de 

 Notes, par M. Sonnini. Paris, 1809. 4 vol. 8vo. (With 

 an Atlas of Twenty-five Plates.) 



This edition of the zoological researches of this extraor- 

 dinary Spaniard is now become very rare. The two last 

 volumes, that is, the third and fourth, are entirely devoted to 

 ornithology, and contain full descriptions of no less than 448 

 species, collected by the author himself, chiefly in Paraguay. 

 M. Sonnini, not having seen the birds, has been guided 

 merely by the descriptions in referring them to the systematic 

 genera ; and MM. Vieillot and Latham have followed the 

 same plan to a much more injurious extent. Azara is the 

 W ilson of South American ornithology, and his name will 



This is the Leptonyx macropus of our Zoological Illustrations, 



