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some whose love of science and admiration of the publication would otherwise 
cause them to procure it; but we think it cannot, on the whole, be called a dear, 
or even an expensive work. However, be this as it may, the list of subscribers 
(given in a former number) extends to a considerable length, and we may there¬ 
fore trust that the intelligent author has not suffered, in a pecuniary point of 
view, by his undertaking. The plates, it will be perceived, are not published in 
systematic order; but this is of little consequence, as they can for the most part 
be arranged, at the conclusion of the work, according to the views in classification 
of each subscriber. 
The number opens with a representation of the egg of the Common Kite {Mil- 
us vulgaris^ Flem.) ; it is not much subject to variety, and therefore only one 
figure is given, and with that one we have no fault to find. Our author, how¬ 
ever, mentions one curious variety, in the possession of the Rev. W. Darwin 
Fox, “ singularly spotted with minute dots, and waved linear marks.” 
The next is that of the Darklegged Warbler (Sylvia loquax^ and not S. hippo- 
lais^ as given by Mr. Hewitson). Our author has judged right in representing 
three figures, as the eggs are very much subject to variety. We never saw one 
of the beautiful dark colour of Fig. 2., a shade between Figs. 1 and 3 being com¬ 
monest. In 1836 we first heard the note of this bird, as mentioned by Mr. 
Hewitson, on the 5th of February, but this year not a single individual was 
seen in the north of England till towards the close of April, a circumstance easily 
accounted for by the dreariness of the past season. 
Two figures of the egg of the Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea^ Ltnn.), differing 
remarkably in size, but not in colour. The representations are characteristic, but 
scarcely so well finished as we could have wished. 
A couple of sombre-looking eggs of the Black-tailed Godwit {hhnosa melanura^ 
Leisler), offering no very remarkable varieties. The extremes have, however, 
not been figured in Mr. Hewitson’s plate. 
We next find a delicately-executed figure of the White Stork's {Ciconia alba) 
egg. The situation of the nest in the towns of Holland and Germany is “ upon 
the tops of towers, churches, and outbuildings, upon many of which boxes are 
placed for their accommodation. Mr. Hoy, who has seen them upon a cart¬ 
wheel elevated on the top of a strong pole, for that purpose, says, that they 
also, though seldom, build in lofty trees,” 
Lovely representations of the egg of the Hobby Falcon (Falco siihbuteo), the 
darker variety being much the commoner of the two. 
In the next plate, we regret to find the eggs of two species figured together, 
which will preclude the possibility of arranging the work, in this particular, ac¬ 
cording to the views of modern systematists. The species are the Gargany Teal 
(Querquedula circia) and the Common Gad wall (Chauliodus strepera). Our 
author, it is true, includes them both in Linn^us’s gi*eat genus Anas ; but even 
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