100 Magazine of Natural History. 
uniting it to the genus Cooperia." Gr. Bulbs were sent from Texas by Mr 
Drummond. 
The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, 
Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology. Conducted by J. C. 
LOUDON. Lond. Jan April, 1836. 8vo. 
This was, perhaps is to many, an entertaining and a useful miscellany, though 
latterly it has been declining in the interest and in the value of its communica- 
tions. Such a large collection of facts, however, in relation especially to British 
Zoology and Botany, is brought within its volumes, that they must necessarily 
be consulted by every one who in future undertakes the history of our Fauna or 
Flora ' but we will hint that much caution is necessary in the consultation, for 
the statements often rest on the testimony of those who have obviously begun 
to communicate the result of their researches before a sufficient experience has 
taught them all the difficulties and deceptions to which even a field-naturalist 
who attempts no more than to note down his observations is liable. With 
the present year the ninth volume commenced, and four numbers of it are before 
us, whose botanical and zoological contents we shall merely indicate. 
I. Zoology. 
RYLANDS on the Quinary or Natural System of M'Leay, Swainson, Vigors, 
&c. pp. 130 and 173. Mr R. does not seem to us competent to discuss the 
very difficult question he has ventured upon. WOOD on the propriety of alter- 
ing established scientific names in Natural History, p. 138. WATERTON on 
the Brown or Gray Rat (Mus decumanus,) p. 1. A clever sketch, but too much 
interwoven with politics and satire Moss on the habits of a domesticated 
White Rat, p. 182 On the habits of the Robin Red-breast, p. 6 ORD 
on the Cow Bunting of the United States of America, p. 57 WATERTON on 
the Titmouse and the Woodpecker, p. 74. WATERTON on the Habits of the 
Jay, p. 187 TAYLOR on the Birds of the Alleghany Mountain Range, p. 72. 
On the arrival of the summer Birds of Passage in the neighbourhood of 
Carlisle during the spring of 1835 ; to which are added observations on some of 
the scarcer Birds obtained in the same vicinity from November 10, 1834, to 
November 10, 1835, p. 185 TEMPLETON'S Catalogue of Irish Crustacea, 
Myriapoda, and Arachnoida, p. 9 JOHNSTON on Astacilla longicornis, p. 80 : 
and on Chordrocanthus lophii, p. 81. JOHNSTON on Limapontia nigra, p. 79. 
FORBES'S Notices of Species of Naticidse, p. 191. The figures illustrative 
of this paper are very unsatisfactory. In Natica monilifera, Mr F. has never found 
more than one tentaculum : has the male organ of generation not been mistaken 
for such ? JOHNSTON on Psamathe fusca, p. 14, a new genus of Annelides ; 
and on Planaria subauricula, p. 16, a supposed new species of the genus. 
II. Botany. 
WATSON on the construction of Maps for illustrating the distribution of Plants, 
p. 17. WALSH on Symphysis in Plants, p. 83. GARDINER on the uses of 
the Nectary and Corolla in Plants, p. 195. HENSLOW'S Enumeration of Spe- 
cies and Varieties of Plants which have been deemed British, but whose indige- 
nousness to Britain is considered to be questionable, p. 88 BROMFIELD'S 
notice of Habitats of some rare British Plants, p. 85. MALLET on the seed- 
