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but it only embraces the region to the northward of 
Mexico, leaving Mexico and Guatemala even, of North 
America, entirely untouched. Of South America Swain- 
son has done something to illustrate the birds of Brazil; 
but the work did not proceed beyond the fifth number, 
and it would take a work six times as large as the Birds 
of Europe to do justice to that noble district. Of course, 
when we say that no work has yet appeared illustrating 
the feathered tribe of South America, we mean as a 
whole,—for several beautiful monographs, as well as 
detached works on local divisions, have been published ; 
and we would call attention to the Zoology of H.M.S. 
Beagle , now in the course of publication, in which 
are several excellent figures of birds, drawn, we believe, 
by Mr. Gould. 
Africa has been more fortunate. Ruppell has, in 
his two works, illustrated many of the birds of the 
northeast; Swainson has done something for the west¬ 
ern coast, and Le Vaillant has given us his invaluable 
work on those of South Africa; and what that naturalist 
left untouched will be ably taken up by Dr. Andrew 
Smith, now engaged in a very extensive series of illus¬ 
trations of the zoology of this portion of the globe. 
The Asiatic Province has never been yet taken up, 
though many of its birds have been figured in different 
publications, particularly those of Temminck ; who has 
also done a great deal for the Asiatic Islands,—those 
especially with which Holland holds most intercourse,-— 
and several of the last novelties published were very 
interesting. Till, however, this present work of Gould’s, 
no illustrations, with the exception of Lewin’s, had 
appeared on the birds of our adopted land. Some of 
Lewin’s sketches are good, but they are, mostly, very 
coarsely engraved, and, after looking at Gould’s moving 
pictures, one is inclined to consign them to the flames. 
