THE LIBRARY. 



5th. Oology, or a description of the nests and 

 eggs of a great number of European birds, with 

 an account of their manners and habits, by the 

 abbe Manesse, member of the academies of 

 St. Petersburg, Erfurt, etc., 2 vol. 4% of three hun- 

 dred and fifty pages each, with one volume of 

 excellent designs representing several species of 

 birds and one hundred and ninety-eight species 

 of eggs. 



The author does not insist upon the characters 

 of species already described and figured in works 

 on ornithology, but he presents the most curious 

 particulars of their habits, emigration, education 

 of their young, etc. He had sent the collection of 

 eggs figured by him, to the Museum, and these, 

 amounting to one thousand and ninety-four, are 

 now deposited in the galleries of zoology. 



6th. Chinese paintings on rolls of paper con- 

 sisting of a single sheet ; one of which, 24 feet in 

 length, presents the figures of several fish not 

 well known ; four others represent the city of 

 Canton and Chinese edifices : there are also three 

 folio parcels of portraits of men and women, 

 and figures of plants and animals. 



7th. We may cite as a curiosity, a Chinese 

 manuscript in eight volumes small folio, with 

 figures. The correctness of the writing is won- 

 derful, and the designs bear a most striking re- 



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