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Tribes , an) Mr. Ey ton’s Supplement to Bewick. “Of these and other cotem¬ 
porary writers, the reader will find more ample notice in Mr. Neville Wood's 
Ornithologist's Text-Book of 1836 ” After enumerating the “ works which relate 
particularly to the more musical of the feathered tribe,” as Bolton’s Harmonia 
Ruralis , Mr. Sweet’s British Warblers , Mr. Syme’s and Mr. Wood’s works on 
British Song-Birds , Bechstein’s Cage Birds , &c., and Mr. Yarrell’s “ much- 
desired History of British Birds ,” our author alludes to Mr. MacGillivray’s 
Rapacious Birds of Britain , and History of British Birds : —“ Last, though 
the reverse of lowest in our estimation, stand Mr. MacGillivray’s characteristic 
volumes. In regard to these two works, readers may probably differ in their 
appreciation of some insulated passages, critical or otherwise, not essential to the 
exposition of the subject in hand; but we think all must agree that they are 
written in a clear, vigorous, and original manner, and devoid of that vapid spirit 
of compilation which pervades the labours of so many of the ingenious author's 
predecessors and cotemporaries.” 
The structure, classification, and descriptions of birds are then passed through 
in the able manner which we have before had the pleasure of commending in 
Mr. Wilson’s volumes. The work concludes with synopses of the systems of 
Illiger, Temminck, Vigors, and Swainson, and an enumeration of the birds of 
Europe, 310 of which are regarded as residents in or visitants to Britain. 
The plates are in much the same excellent style as in preceding volumes, 
and bear a considerable similarity in style to those of “honest George Edwards." 
We confess ourselves glad to notice this departure from the glazed modern style; 
and the effect would be still better were the figures coloured. 
A Floral Guide for East Kent , 4’ c - / being a Record of the Habitats of 
Indigenous Plants found in the Eastern Division of the County of Kent, with 
those of Faversham particularly detailed, and definitely exhibited ; together with 
brief Remarks on the Uses of the several Species in Rural or Domestic Economy, 
Agriculture, Medicine, and the Manufactures; and on their Classical and His¬ 
torical Associations; deduced from various Authorities. In two Divisions, 
illustrated by two Maps. By M. H. Cowell, Corr. Mem. and Loc. Sec., for 
Kent, of the Bot. Soc. of London. Faversham : W. Ratcliffe , Court-Street. 1839. 
8vo. pp. 98. 
The plan of the work seems good, and its price is moderate; but it would 
have been more convenient as a book of reference had it been small 8vo. or 12mo. 
It may also be objected that the size of the work has been needlessly increased 
by the too frequent repetition of some of the commoner species; but the author 
