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pany, Amsterdam. To this amateur, so zealous for the advancement 

 of natural history, I owe the greatest obligations ; he had not only the 

 kindness to allow me to take a description of all the rare birds in his 

 collection, but ordered engravings to be made of them, which I shall 

 communicate to the public in the course of this work, in proportion as 

 I shall find occasion to speak of African birds, to which they are ana- 

 logous ; I here publicly offer him my best thanks. I am also much 

 indebted to Messrs. Ray de Breukelerwaard, Holthuysen, Ameshof, 

 Gevers, Arnst, and W. S. Boers, &c, &c, &c, who have all contributed 

 to the completion of this ornithology, by furnishing me with the new 

 species, which will form a supplement to this work, which was, at first, 

 intended only to treat on African birds. 



The bird, which I have called Teniia, has the body of the size of 

 that of our song thrush, but is rather larger ; its tail, composed of ten 

 feathers, is very long, and much wedge-shaped ; the four middle quills 

 are successively rather shorter. The bill, legs, and claws are black ; all 

 the feathers on the body are long, delicate, and provided with silky 

 barbs, which are exceedingly soft to the touch j in a bad light they 

 appear black, but in certain situations present a greenish or purple 

 appearance. The forehead, and space comprised between the eye and 

 the bill, as well as the throat, are clothed with small feathers, which 

 are united so intimately together as to appear like a dull black mat, and 

 resemble velvet in particular points of view. The tail-quills are 

 blackish ; the four feathers, situated in the middle of the tail, are 

 greenish ; the rest have only their outer barbs of this colour ; so that 

 the tail underneath is black, and, on the upper surface, of a dull green. 



This bird was sent from Batavia to M. Temminck ; but as that city 

 is the general entrepot of all vessels trading to the Indies, it might 

 possibly have been conveyed thither from some other part of the 

 world. 



ANGLING, &c. 



BY L. W. CLARKE. 



When a youth, my time was partly occupied with a hook and 

 line, and many have been the days that I have sat bank-emperched 

 above the stream of the silver Tame, conning the lore of my country- 

 man, honest Izaak Walton, my float diving unheeded by me ; and as 

 you mention the delight you experienced in being enabled to " make 

 out" the speedwell on the mountains of Caledonia, I often dwell with 

 similar pleasure on the recollection of the joy experienced by me in 



