282 Wood's British Sony- Birds. 
work on general ornichology /' " On the establishment of a new 
magazine of natural history;" Habits of the Ivy wren (Anorthura trog- 
lodytes, Morris/') being an extract from a work of thejauthor's then 
in the press ; and some observations " on the English nomenclature 
of birds." 
British Song-Birds, being popular Descriptions and Anecdotes oj 
the Choristers of the Groves. By NEVILLE WOOD, Esq. 12mo. 
Pp. 408. London, W. Parker, 1836. 
IN most of the works entitled " Song" or " Singing- Birds/' many 
species are introduced, which to our ideas have no business there, but 
we have no right to quarrel with the tastes of the authors, although 
we cannot perceive the title of the buntings, or common sparrow, or 
stone-chat, or wheatear, to be called " choristers of the groves." 
The present volume contains descriptions of seventy-three species, 
and will be useful to those who possess no work of greater extent. 
We discover nothing new in it, but there are some pretty descrip- 
tions, and one or two interesting anecdotes. One favourite chorister we 
miss, not certainly of the grove ; but if those of the brake and barren 
waste are admitted, so may he of our mountain torrents. Mr Wood 
can never have heard the plaintive melody of the water-ouzel (Cin- 
clus aquaticus.) To the nomenclature we decidedly object; it 
is often inappropriate, and many of the names may be at once 
thrown out by using the very rules which our author advocates. 
We dislike also repetition of the remarks against compilers, and the 
frequent and sometimes not very gently couched observations upon 
the works of a living author. 
Collection de Perroquets, pour fair e suite a la publication de Levail- 
lant, contenant les especes laissees par cet auteur, ou recemment 
decouvertes, destine a completer une monographic Jiguree de la 
famille des Psiltacides. Par le Dr A. BOUKJAT SAINT HILARE. 
Fol. et 4to. 
A work with the above title is about to be commenced as a sup- 
plement or continuation of Levaillant. The figures will be lithogra- 
.phic, and are drawn by M. Werner. It will be published in monthly 
livraisons of four plates each, size, folio and quarto, to correspond with 
the different editions of Levaillant's work. The price twelve and fif- 
teen francs. Prom 100 to 150 plates are proposed to be given, but 
if each is devoted to a species, and the sexes are given where the 
difference is great, that number will not suffice to represent the ad- 
ditional species known at the present time. 
