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The Supplement to Shaw’s General ^oology will 
be found useful, as giving the characters of the 
modern genera, in which many of our native 
species, particularly the Natatores, will range. 
Fleming’s British Animals gives a synopsis of our 
species, Turton’s British Fauna contains another, 
and the British Vertebrata of Jenyngs gives a 
third, brought down to the commencement of the 
last year. Many valuable papers have also ap- 
peared in our transactions and periodicals, which, 
however, are generally quoted in the works which 
we have mentioned above, and in these the names 
of Edwards, Forster, Walcot, Latham, Montague, 
Wilson, Fleming, Selby, and Yarrell, may be 
mentioned as all contributing to our stock of 
information.* 
* One or two works have been omitted, which, though 
they should be mentioned as indicating the progress, are 
not at all necessary for the British ornithologist, — Lord’s 
British Birds, published in 1791, folio, with ninety-six 
plates ; Hunt’s British Ornithology, published in 1815, 
reached thirteen parts, with twelve plates in each ; Syme’s 
British Song Birds, published in 1823, a work with very 
pretty figures, and good directions for breeding and rearing 
cage birds ; Rennie’s edition of Montague’s Ornithological 
Dictionary, published in 1831 . 
Among the very modern works may be noted, Eyton’s 
Rarer British Birds, a useful supplement to Bewick, 
Mudie’s Feathered Tribes, Wood’s Song Birds, and Mac- 
gilivray’s Raptores, &c. ; and we are waiting with anxiety 
to see the first number of a new work, from which we 
expect much, British Birds by William Yarrell. 
