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coloured figures are sufficiently exact, in most instances, for 
detenniiiing the species.) 
Latham. Index Ornithologicus. Loudon, 1790. 2 vol. 4to. 
( A Latin Synopsis of the last, without plates. ) 
Latham. General History of Birds. Winchester, 1821 — 1824. 
10 vol. 4to.* 
Shaw. General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Com- 
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14, each vol. being in two parts. The plates are plain and 
mostly copied from other works, but tolerably engraved. 
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et des prineipalcs Especes d’Oiseaux. I’ar 11. P. Lesson. 
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(17s.) Under the head of partial systksls, we in- 
clude monographs of particular groups, either puhliahed 
separately, or in the transactions of learned societies. 
2. Miscellaneous descriptions, incorporated vvitli other 
subjects ; and, .S. Collections of figures and descriptions 
of select ornithological subjects. Many of the former, 
and some of the latter, equally belong to our fifth divi- 
sion ; but they are here noticed that the student, upon 
merely looking over one of the lists, may not suppose 
they have been altogether omitted. The most valuable 
collection of monographs of certain genera is contained 
in the volume of ITagler before alluded to : it is ren- 
dered, however, defective by the absence of specific 
characters, after the manner of Linnseus and the best 
modern zoologists, while the unnecessary and injudi- 
cious changes that have been made in some of the best ge- 
neric and specific names, and the artificial nature of nearly 
all the new divisions, shows that industry is the author’s 
chief qualification ; on the other hand, the descriptions 
of the species, although diffuse and laboured, are very 
accurate, and the work is not only valuable, but indis- 
pensable to every systematic ornithologist. M. Tem_ 
* I he same plates are used for this work as were inser'ed iu the Gencrel 
Synopsis ; but.several others are added. 
