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thetic, and the want of careful supervision is very apparent. No new Birds 

 were added in either of the 1832 volumes, but the titles of some were changed, 

 as, for instance, the Brown Starling of 1826 becomes the Young Starling in 

 1832. The fourteen foreign birds are at the end, as in the 1800, 1826, and 

 1847 publications. Several changes are made among the vignettes in the 

 1832 edition, eight which appeared in the first volume of 1826 being taken 

 away in 1832, and eight others added in different places. In the second 

 volume ten vignettes are taken away, but no new ones are added. 



The last edition of the Birds, 1847, contains only one new figure of a bird 

 more than those of 1826 and 1832. This is a representation by Robert 

 Bewick of Bewick's Swan, and is one of the best examples of the son's 

 engraving. The bird was first observed as a distinct species in 1828, but 

 there is some difference of opinion who was the first observer. Bewick's 

 Swan is like the Hooper, but has a different trachea. "Its near affinity and 

 close external resemblance to that species have, no doubt, occasioned it to 

 be long confounded with it." The vignettes have " about twenty " additions 

 to their number, being chiefly those executed for the unpublished " History 

 of Fishes." Hancock's Synopsis, of thirty-six pages, is published for the first 

 and only time in the 1847 edition. The number of birds in Volume I., 1847, 

 is 170, being 156 British and 14 foreign birds, and 157 vignettes, besides 

 the 1 2 explanatory cuts giving details of the different parts of birds. The 

 second volume contains 150 figures of birds and 152 vignettes. The last 

 edition of the Birds, it will thus be seen, differs in great degree from the 

 original publication. The arrangement of the two works also varies consider- 

 ably, many of the birds in the second volume being transferred to the first, 

 and vice versa, the system made more in accordance with other authorities, 

 and a great number of the titles of the birds altered in the last edition. 



It is again and again repeated in various accounts of Bewick's career 

 that the " Memoir of Thomas Bewick, written by himself," issued in 1862, 

 was prepared during the latter years of his life. Dovaston and Bowman 



