DESCRIPTIONS 
OF SOME 
NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS FROM THE PARISIAN COLLECTIONS. 
For the illustrations accompanying this paper we are indebted to 
Mr. Edward Wilson of Tenby, to whom we have often bad occasion 
to express our acknowledgments for the kind interest he has taken 
in these “ Contributions.” When in Paris lately, Mr. Wilson saw 
some figures of birds executed by Mon. Chenu, printed entirely in 
colours; and being struck with their execution, directed three plates 
t0 bc Prepared for this work (Plates XCYI. XCVII. XCVIII.) 
it will easily be seen that some subjects will work better and more 
hai moniously than others, while some may require a slight assistance 
° r touc hing by the hand ; but in any circumstances, if figures such 
' are now given can be procured at a lessened expense by printing, 
" 1 ( '} saving the laborious and expensive operation of colouring 
. oind, a great assistance will be gained to the production of 
coloured illustrated works. The other two figures (Plates XCIX. 
In o'! ^ographed a,1 d coloured in the usual way, being drawn 
* U wbose name is so well known in the continental works 
fi-riner These may be usefully contrasted with the 
M. DevifiV r 6 ^ een described ' b y ^ r * Sclater in conjunction with 
PlantcR -1 10111 specimens in the Collection of the Jardin des 
from which wo'V ^ the ** ^ evue et Magazin de Zoologie,” 
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