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the Dotterel Plover, the Great Snipe, the Ivy Wren, the Common Merganser, the 
Golden-crowned Kinglet, and the Fiery-crowned Kinglet. For his specimen of 
the egg of this bird, Mr. Hewit&on is indebted to our correspondent, Thomas 
Meynell, jun., Esq. 
Among the subscribers we notice the following names :—J. J. Audubon, Prof. 
Bell, Charles Conway, Henry Doubleday, Rev. Thomas Gisborne, John 
Gould, J. E. Gray, Gen. PIardwicke, Sir W. J. Hooker, J. D. Hoy, Sir W. 
Jardine, W. A. Leighton, R. Leyland, Dr. Shirley Palmer, W. H. Rud- 
ston Read, J. D. Salmon, P. J. Selby, Prof. Temminck, Dr. Vigors, M.P., 
W. Yarrell. 
The work is divided into three volumes ; but we think it might advantageously 
be bound up in one. Ornithologically speaking, the figures are for the most part 
unexceptionable; but in an artistical point of view, we cannot but reprehend the 
style in which the eggs are shaded. The everlasting hard line stretching length¬ 
ways along each figure has a very bad effect, and the specimens have generally 
too flat an appearance. As this circumstance was pointed out to the author in 
time to remedy it in his later numbers, we have no scruple in drawing attention to 
it now the work is finished. This defect, however, will scarcely lessen the value 
of the British Oology in the eyes of our scientific readers. 
We need hardly add, that every one at all interested in the eggs of British 
birds, will place Mr. Hewitson’s excellent work in his library, however select it 
may be. From the appearance of the first number, many years ago, to the 
present time, we have taken the most lively interest in the success of this 
publication; and, pleased though we are at having seen it safely and satisfactorily 
concluded, we shall miss the gratification hitherto afforded by the periodical 
appearance of its instructive parts. 
The Naturalist's Library. British Quadrupeds. By W. MacGillivray, 
A.M., F.R.S.E., &c. London: S. Highley. 12mo. 1838. 
The brief memoir which is prefixed to this volume of the Naturalists Library , 
considering the paucity of materials, does great credit to the author, and will, we 
doubt not, be perused with interest. The subject of it (Ulysses Aldrovandi), 
though seldom quoted now as an authority, was one of the first promoters of 
Natural History, when light began to dispell the gloom of the 44 dark ages.” 
Much was necessary, then, to attract attention to the science.^ In accomplishing 
this object he was assisted by Rondelet, Belon, Gesner, &c. ; but the depth of 
his zeal, the almost unparalleled exertions he made, the knowledge he accumu¬ 
lated and communicated, and the vast amount of property he devoted to it, would 
justify us in styling Ulysses Aldrovandi the father of modern Natural History. 
