ORNITHOLOGY IN 1861. 
should not otherwise have seen them as a whole, and in their elegant 
arrangements, pointing out how each smaller group could, of itself, 
he made exceedingly interesting ; and how the accompaniments of 
wax flowers, the modelling of which has now been brought to so 
great perfection, may enhance the value of the picture, and make it 
almost a real transcript of the vegetation of the tropics. 
With the exception of “ Contributions to Ornithology ,” the only 
illustrated works that have been published during the past year, 
have been those by Mr. Gould. 
The Birds of Australia , Supplement , Part I. — Was early pub- 
lished, and contained figures of several of the species we have 
already had occasion to notice in the Ornithology of Section P at 
Edinburgh, in our volume for 1851. The contents are Ptiloris 
Victoria* and magnificus , Menura alberti, Notornis manteRi (New 
Zealand), Microglossus aterrimus, Tanysiptera sylvia, Halcyon 
famrostris , Specotheres faviventris, Drymodes super ciliar is , Ptilotis 
filigera , Aplonis metalhca , Nectar inia australis , Machcerinhynchus 
flaviventer, Monarcha leucotis, Arses Jcaupi , Pycnoptilus foccosus 
all of which, with the exception of the Menura , Notornis, and the 
last, formed part of the collections of the Rattlesnake, procured 
chiefly in the vicinity of Cape York, in Northern Australia. 
Fait HI. only has been added to The Birds of Asia , containing 
ryps bengalensis , Falco per egr mater, Ithaginis cruentus , Ammo-' 
pe rdix bonhami, A. heyi , Pterocles guttatus, P. coronatus, Otis 
cqueuu, Euphona personata , E. melanura, Mycerobas melanox- 
7 ^ S ’ 1 ' cain fT es i Hesperiphona icteroides, Montifringilla arctoa , 
amiatopygia, Buticilla erythrogastra, Leiothrix luteus. 
t II. of a Monograph of the Trochilidoe or Humming-Birds 
m b # CCn publlshed ’ ma intaining its excellence in every way. 
tho Fr ] ° St ^m° re ^ ret tbe non " com pletion of the Ornithology 
monoST "n r0r ' G ° VC ™ Illeift hav e more to do than men 
tLTool a "? T g a gfant VOted - The great fault of nearly 
h U. 0 g Z g ° Patroni20d > & ‘he time they are allowed 
from ah t > Part ° f whic]l the species are shut 
0m . 2 a " ,nSpCCt,0n ' Thc Oology of South Africa, “ Publish 
