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exceeds any other of the author's in the beauty and splendour 

 of its contents. 



Le Vaillant. Histoire Naturelle des Toucans et des Barbus. 

 1 vol. folio. 



This is generally considered as the second volume of the 

 last ; but the two works were published separately, and have 

 distinct titles. 



Le Vaillant. Histoire Naturelle des Promerops, Guepiers, et 

 des Couroucous. Paris, 1807. 1 vol. folio. 



Fewer copies, we suspect, of this latter volume must have 

 been printed than of the two preceding, for we have never 

 been able to procure it, or to see it in any library, public or 

 private : we cannot, therefore, speak of its execution from 

 actual knowledge. Of its merits there can be no doubt, so 

 far as the author is concerned, and if, as we have heard, the 

 plates are executed from the drawings of Barrabaud, the 

 volume will be equal to the preceding. 



Lear. Illustrations of the family of Psittacida?, or Parrots ; 

 the greater part of them species hitherto uniigured : contain- 

 ing forty-two lithographic plates, drawn from life and on 

 stone. By E. Lear. A.L.S. 1 vol. royal folio. 



This beautiful volume might be looked on as a supplement 

 to the work of Le Vaillant upon the same family, had the 

 plates been accompanied by descriptions, but unfortunately 

 there is no letter-press beyond the title and the list of sub- 

 scribers. Those drawings in the volume which have been 

 taken from live birds are worthy of great praise, and all are 

 beautifully and accurately coloured. 



Gould. A Monograph of the family of Ramphastidae, or 

 Toucans. London, 1834. 2 Parts, royal folio. 



Mr. Gould has ably investigated and beautifully delineated 

 these singular birds, and has added several new species to 

 those with which we were previously acquainted. A third part 

 now in the] press, is intended to complete the work, which 

 Jeserves to be ranked with that upon the same group by 

 Le Vaillant. 



Gould. A Monograph of the Trogonida? or Trogons. Part 

 L royal folio. 



Uniform with the preceding, and, from the superior 

 beauty of the birds themselves, even more interesting. 



(181.) This list comprises all the royal folio volumes 

 of illustrative ornithology not mentioned in the preced- 

 ing pages, with the exception, indeed, of some few of 

 those on the European birds of the last century, whose 

 execution is altogether inferior. They compose a series, 

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