58 Entomological Society. A work indispensable to the working ornithologist, carefully ex-ecuted, and having the advantage of being revised by the Prince of Canino, Mr. G. R. Gray, and Mr. Strickland. In an undertaking requiring such extensive consultation of authors, some mistakes, or errors of the press, might be expected, but so far as we have exa-mined it, these are remarkably few ; oreophilus, p. 53, is oreopholus, or rather it should be oreopolus, from opos, mons, and 7ro\eio,frequento. The Birds of Australia, by J. Gould, F.L.S., &c. Parts VIII. IX. Oblong folio. 1842. The pictorial character and scientific interest of these numbers are sustained ; in both we have illustrations of many new genera, (perhaps too many,) and the author is following a very useful practice, of devoting a considerable portion of every number to the illustration of a genus, so that the whole, or a great portion of it, is at once brought under review. Thus, in No. VIII. we have seven species of the old genus Petroica figured; the author, however, subdividing it, and placing the old P. rhodinogaster under the title of Erythrodryas . Again, in No. IX. there are plates of six species of swallows, illustrating five genera. The Natural History of Selborne, by the late Rev. G. White. New edition, with Notes by the Rev. Leonard Jenyns. London, Van Voorst. A General History of Animalcules, by A. Pritchard. Part I. London, Whittaker. History of British Birds, by William Yarrell. Part XXXII. 8vo, August 1, 1842, concludes the history of the Goosanders, and con-tains those of the Grebes and Divers (Podiceps, Colymbus). Faune Beige, l idre Partie, Indication des Mammiferes, Oiseaux, Reptiles et Poissons observes jusqu'ici en Belgique, par Edm. De Selys-Longchamps. Works preparing for publication. Mr. Gould has in preparation an illustrated monograph of the genus Ortyx, or strong-billed American partridges. Icones Piscium ; or Plates of rare Fishes. By John Richardson, M.D.. F.R.S., F.L.S., F.R.G.S., &c. The fasciculi of this work are intended to appear at intervals, ac-cording to the encouragement it may receive. The charge not to exceed the outlay. Fasciculus I. will contain twelve coloured figures, being exact copies of drawings from the portfolio of J. B. Emery, Esq., late first lieutenant of the Beagle surveying vessel, employed on the western coasts of Australia, accompanied by brief notices. Full de-scriptions of some of the species by Dr. Richardson have appeared in our pages. PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. March 7th, 1842.— W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.L.S., &c, President, in the Chair. Mr. Boreham exhibited some curious varieties of Hipparchia Janira,
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