APPENDIX, 
In the thirty-fifth number of the Annals and Magazine of 
Natural History, for October 1840, is an account, by Mr 
G . P. Gray, of a specimen of “ Sylvia luscinioides,” found 
by Mr J. Baker in the fens of Cambridgeshire, The fol- 
lowing is the specific description given 
322 . Sylvia luscinioides. Savx. 
“ General colour above castaneous brown, with the tail 
very inconspicuously barred with darker ; line over the eyes, 
breast, sides, and under tail-coverts, paler than the upper 
parts ; throat and middle of the abdomen albescent, the for- 
mer slightly spotted triangularly with darker. The first quill 
very short, and the second longest of all. Upper mandible 
brown, lower and feet yellowish-brown. 
“ Total length, ; bill, T % ; wings, 2 £ ; tail, ; tarsi, T V ,y 
Of Mr Bellamy’s Sylvia neglecta, I can say nothing with 
certainty. The Canada Goose has perhaps a right to be 
admitted into the British Fauna, and there may be several 
other species having equal claims. The American Wigeon, 
also, has been found in one of the London markets, and 
therefore might have been described as British, 
On the whole, the present Manual seems to me to contain a 
pretty accurate account of the Birds of Britain, and is such a 
work as I should have been well pleased with when I commenced 
the study of ornithology, with no other guides than Linnaeus, 
Pennant, and Montagu. In the department of British Or- 
nithology, the works most to be recommended to the student 
