400 Mr Eyton's British Birds. 
A History of the rare Species of British Birds, intended as a 
Supplemertt to the History of British Birds by the late Thomas 
Bewick. By T. C. EYTON, Esq. London, 1836. 8vo. Pp. 101. 
With catalogue arranged, pp. 67- Wood-cuts. 
AN extract from the prospectus will be the most correct manner 
of conveying information regarding the intentions of this desirable 
addition to the work of our most popular ornithologist. " Since 
the time of the publication of the last edition of the History of Bri- 
tish Birds, by the late Thomas Bewick, many birds have been dis- 
covered to be inhabitants, or visitants, of the British Isles ; and are 
consequently not figured in his work. To supply this deficiency is 
the only aim of the author ; and, to the accomplishment of which, 
he trusts he shall be deemed competent, as he possesses nearly a 
perfect collection of British birds, and has the assistance of some 
eminent naturalists in his undertaking." 
A supplement to the works of Bewick, exhibiting the additions 
which from time to time have been made to the list of British birds, 
has been a desideratum which we find well supplied in the little 
work before us. The \vood-cuts are executed in the best manner 
of the modern wood engraving, but it would be difficult indeed to 
come up to the feeling of Bewick, his own draftsman and artist. 
The letter-press is short, but perhaps sufficient for every purpose, 
gives the authorities L for all the species introduced, and generally 
the collections in which the specimens are now to be found, and 
concludes with a catalogue arranged under three heads : 1. What 
the author considers entitled to the rank of et British birds ;" 2. 
" Extinct species ;" 3. " The principal among the introduced spe- 
cies." Of the nomenclature, arrangement, and changes which are 
proposed, we fear, that, like the ornithologists he complains of, the 
author has also added and changed unnecessarily. 
The following remarks occur in looking over the numbers. Re- 
gulus Ignicapillus has, we believe, been lately taken in the vicinity 
of Durham. Linaria canescens we have always considered to be the 
F. borealis, Roux; mentioned with doubt in Temm. Manuel, and 
again under the above name in the 3me part, p. 264 ; figured in 
Vieillot's Gallerie ; and we believe it will prove identical with the 
bird represented by Mr Selby as a variety of the lesser redpole, and 
mentioned L. P. i. p. 320 See our " Intelligence" of No. I. for a 
notice of Macroramphus griseus, again killed in Britain. Sterna 
arctica is perhaps the most common species in Scotland ; it abounds 
during the breeding season upon all the rocky islands in the Firth 
of Forth, from Queensferry to the Fern Islands. The most import- 
