216 
ON XHE CLASSIFICATION OP BIRDS. 
Neither the plates or the pages of this work are num- 
bered; but there are thirty-two coloured plates of Javan- 
ese birds, with ample descriptions. 
Horsfield. Systematic Arrangement and Description of Birds 
irom the Island of Java. Inserted in the Linntean Trans- 
actions, vol. xiii. 
Gcmld. A Century of Birds, hitherto, unfigured, from the 
Himalaya Mountains. By John Gould, A.L.S. Lon. 
cton, 1832. 1 vol. folio. 
I he nomenclature and descriptions are stated to be by 
Vigors, Esq. M. P. There are eighty plates, some 
of them well drawn, and all very highly coloured. 
Hiwdwicke and Gray. Illustrations of Indian Zoolo'ry. 
Folio. (The plates only have yet appeared.) ° 
3 . Africa. 
Le Vaillant. Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de I’Afrique 
Par Fran 90 is Le Vailkint. Paris, 1799-1 808 . 6 vol. 4 to. 
mu number of plates in this valuable work arc exactly 300. 
The figures are drawn , with a very few exceptions, by artists 
who had no scientific knowledge of a bird: they are, conse- 
quently, still, unnatural, and very inferior; nor should tliey 
be confounded with those executed for the other works of 
this author by the celebrated Barrabaud. The great merit 
of this work lies in the letter-press, in the observations on 
the n.atural groups, and in the account of the manners and 
habits of the different species. A few of these latter, how- 
ever, in the two first volumes, are not natives of Africa, but 
have been introduced for the purpose of facilitating compa- 
rison. ‘ 
Riippell. Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichin Afrika. Von 
Eduard Ruppell. Vogel Bearbeitet von Dr. Med. Pli. J. 
Cr^zschimy. Frankfurt am Main, 1826 . Folio. 
The ornithological portion is paged i^eparatcly, and con 
tains thirty-six plates and descriptions. The former are 
wry respectable lithographs, and appear faithfully coloured 
The letter-press is in German, but the specific characters in 
Jzatin. 
4. America. 
Wilson. American Ornithology ; or. Natural History of the 
Birds of the United States. 9 vol. 4to. Philadelphia, 1803- 
1814. With f 6 coloured plates. 
Wilson. The American Ornithology of Alexander Wilson, 
with a Continuation hy C. L. Bonaparte. The illustrative 
notes and life of Wilson by Sir William Jardinc, Bart. 
London and Edinburgh, 1832. 3 vol. Svo. 
