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ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL LITERATURE. 
which time I have not heard of any being met with : about ten years ago they 
were taken one winter in immense numbers. 
This bird would seem to possess a more northern range than the other, and is 
apparently the same on both sides of the Atlantic, whereas the smaller race does 
not occur in America. I have seen many skins of a still larger species from 
Russia and Siberia, and examples undistinguishable from the British Mealy Linnet ' 
from Japan: but some of the foreign specimens are extremely puzzling, and I 
very much incline to the opinion that all cannot be discriminated : even the 
American specimens have generally rather more white upon them than those of 
Europe. 
It is worthy of notice, and a curious indication of the difference of size between 
the two British races, that whereas both are equally fond of hemp-seed, when in 
captivity, the larger only is enabled to crack their seeds for itself; and would 
feed on nothing else if suffered to do so: the lesser kind may manage to husk an 
unusually small one, but cannot feed on those of average dimensions. 
North Brixton^ Surrey^ 
Sept. 20, 1837. 
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS ON ZOOLOGY AND 
BOTANY. 
Section 1. Zoology. 
By Neville Wood, Esquiee. 
A CORRESPONDENT has favoured us with a brief account of some of the most 
important works on Botany; but as no one has had the courage to grapple with 
the zoological department, we shall, in compliance with the wish expressed by 
Charles Hanway, Esq., of Alton Hall, Gloucestershire (p. 359), attempt to 
supply that information which our contributors appear to think should in cour¬ 
tesy be allowed to fall to our own lot. 
In soliciting information respecting not only the best complete works and 
monographs, but also papers in transactions of learned societies and in periodi¬ 
cals, Mr. Hanway can have but little knowledge of the labor such a task must 
necessarily involve, or of the extent to which Natural Science has been studied 
in thexivilized world from the time of Pliny downwards. The mere titles of 
all the works extant upon Natural History would occupy move pages than we 
are at present willing to bestow upon the subject; and as to the innumerable 
