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exceeds any other of t]ie author’s in the beauty and splendour 
of its contents. 
Le Vaillant. Histoirc Naturellc des Toucans ct des Barbus. 
1 vol. folio. 
This is generally considered as the second volume of the 
last; but the two works were published separately, and have 
distinct titles. 
Le Vaillant. Histoire Naturelle des Promerops, Guepiers, et 
des Couroucous. Paris, 1807. 1 vol. folio. 
Fewer copies, we suspect, of this latter volume must have 
been printed than of the two preceding, for we have never 
been able to procure it, or to see it in any library, public or 
private : we cannot, therefore, speak of its execution from 
actual knowledge. Of its merits there can be no doubt, so 
far as the author is concerned, and if, as we have heard, the 
plates arc executed from the drawings of Barrabaud, the 
volume will be equal to the preceding. 
Lear. Blustrations of the family of Psittneido!, or Parrots ; 
the greater part of them species hitherto unfigured : contain- 
ing forty-two lithographic plates, drawn from life and on 
stone. By E. Lear. A. L.S. 1 vol. royal folio. 
This beautiful volume might be looked on as a supplement 
to the work of Le Vaillant upon the same family, had the 
plates been accompanied by descriptions, but unfortunately 
there is no letter-press beyond the title and the list of sub- 
scribers. Those drawings in the volume which have been 
taken from live birds are worthy of great praise, and all are 
beautifully and accurately coloured. 
Gould. A Monograph of the family of Uaraphastida), or 
Toucans. London, 1S34. 2 Parts, royal folio. 
Mr. Gould has ably investigated and beautifully delineated 
these singular birds, and h.as added several new species to 
those witli which we were previously acquainted. A third part 
now in the] press, is intended to complete the work, which 
deserves to be ranked with that upon the same group by 
Le Vaillant. 
Gould. A Monograph of the Trogonida: or ,Trogons. Part 
1. royal folio. 
Uniform with the preceding, and, from the superior 
beauty of the birds themselves, even more interesting. 
(181.) This list comprises all the royal folio volumes 
of illustrative ornithology not mentioned in the preced- 
ing pages, with the exception, indeed, of some few of 
those on the European birds of the last century, whose 
execution is altogether inferior. They compose a series, 
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