266 Bibliographical Notices. by the jaguar into the wood, where we found it minus its tail part, which to a third of the fish's length had been eaten off. It may be conceived what strength was necessary to get it out of the canoe, and I am almost inclined to suppose that it had been assisted by another jaguar. Our endeavours to rid ourselves of this unwelcome visitor proved all fruitless, and there were some among us who began to think like the Indians that its-life was enchanted. Mr. Vieth, who formed one of our party during the two last ex-peditions into the interior, and who during a long stay in Guiana has attentively observed the habits of the native cats, told me that he went to sleep in an Indian hut where there were altogether seven hammocks hanging occupied by Indians, and each having a fire underneath it ; nevertheless at about nine o'clock at night, a jaguar of that species entered a hut, and in spite of the screaming of the Indians -carried away a dog which was lying near one of the fires. [To be continued.] BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriees d' Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de compUment aux Planches Enlumin^es de Buffon. Par C. J. Temminck et Meiifren Laugier Baron de Chartrouse. Livr. 98 — 102. Paris, 1839. These " Livraisons " bring a work to a conclusion, which, com-mencing at a time when there existed few periodicals devoted to ornithology, was hailed with much interest. During nearly twenty years it has been conducted with great regularity, having only when near its conclusion occasionally failed in its monthly appearance, while it has maintained an equality in execution alike creditable to the authors and the artists employed by them. The original design of the work was to continue modern discovery in a series of figures of birds not contained in the ' Planches Enluminees,' and it now ex-tends to a collection of 600 plates, on which are represented about 800 species, delineated in almost every instance with a correctness which will allow of little mistake, and coloured with great clearness ; at the same time the plates bear the peculiar character of foreign art, which is not in many instances in accordance with the taste of the British ornithological draftsman. This collection is especially rich in figures of many of the species inhabiting the Dutch posses-sions in the islands of the East, where the valuable and beautiful productions became first appreciated and in part described in the
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