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1700. Leigh, C— Continued. 



of Physick. | — | Oxford : | Printed for the Author : and to be had there at Mr. 

 George West's, | and Mr. Henry Clement's, Booksellers there ; Mr. Edward 

 Evet's, I at the Green Dragon, in St. Paul's Church-yard ; and Jlr. John | 

 Nicholson, at the King's-Arms, in Little Britain, London. MDCC. 1 vol. 

 sm. folio, frontisp. portrait, eleven prel. 11., pp. [1-4], 11., pp. 1-190, 11.; 

 Book II, pp. 1-97, 1 1. ; Book III, pp. 1-112, 1.5 11. Index. Many plates. 

 Book I, chap, ix, pp. 157-164, Of Birds : summary notice. 



1704. Merrett, C. Britanuicarum Rerum Naturalium Pinax, . . . Londiui. Roy- 

 croft. 1704. 



Kot seen: title from Engelmann, ■who, citing the 1667 ed., says that it was reissued in 1704, 

 under the above title. Compare the eds. of 1667 and of 1666. 



1709. Robinson, T. An I Essay | towards a | Natural History | of | Westmorland | 



and I Cumberland. | Wherein | An Account is given of their several Mineral | 

 and Surface Productions, with some Dire- | ctions how to discover Minerals 

 by the Ex- | ternal and Adjacent Strata and Upper Co- | vers, &c. | To which 

 is Annexed, | A Vindication of the Philosophical and Theological | Paraphrase 

 of the Mosaick System of the | Creation, &c. | — | By Tho. Robinson, Rector 

 of I Ousby in Cumberland. | — | London : | Printed by J. L. for W. Freeman, 

 at the I Bible against the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, 1709. 1 vol. 

 8vo. 8 prel. 11., pp. 1-118. 



After his paraphrase of Genesis I, the author presents some "moral conclusions" -which 

 Birds help him to draw. 



1710. SiBBALD, R. History, ancient and modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and liin- 



ross, with tho descri]ition of both, and of the Firths of Forth and Tay, and 

 the Islands in them. Edinburgh. 1710. 



Not seen : said to contain ornithological matter. See tho ed. of 1803. 

 1712. Lhwyd, E. a Letter from the late Mr. Edward Lhwyd, Keeper of the Ash- 

 molean Museum in Oxford, to Dr. Tancred Robinson, F. R. S. containing 

 several observations in Natural History, made in his Travels thro' Wales. 

 <P7«/os. Trans., xxvii, 1712, pp. 462-465. 



Notices the Grey and Red Game, Cranes, and some unknown red hirds, conjectured to he 

 Virginia nightingales. 



1712. LiiWYD, E. An Extract from a Letter of Mr. Edw. Lhwyd to Dr. Tancred Robin- 



son ; giving some farther Account of the Birds mentioned in the foregoing 

 Letter. < P}iilos. Trans., xxvii, 1712, p. 466. 

 Relating to the same scarlet hirds, on which, however, no further light is thrown. 



1713. Richardson, R. Several Observations in Natural History, made at North- 



Bierley in Yorkshire, by Dr. Richard Richardson (M. D.) Commimicated in a 

 Letter to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Seer. <P/m7o.s. Trans., xxviii, 1713, pp. 167- 

 171. 

 Observations on the "Nut-hatch" or "Nut-jobber" (Sitta) andonthenest otHegiduscristatui. 

 1737. Albin, E. a Natural History of English Song-Birds, . . . 



This is the date of the original edition, which I have not seen. There are at least five : see 

 tho third, 1759. See also the anonymous piracy, 1791. 



1747. Albin, E. A Natural Histoiy of English Song-Birds, . . . 



This is the date of the second edition, which I have not seen. There are at least five of 

 them : see the third, 1759. See also the anonymous piracy, 1791. 



1759. Albin, E. A | Natural History | of | English Song-Birds, | and | Such of the 

 Foreign as arc usually brought | over and esteem'd for their Singing. | To 

 which are added, | Figures of the Cock, Hen, and Egg of | each Species, 

 exactly copied from Nature, | By Mr. Eleazar Albin, | And curiously engraven 

 on Copper. | Also | A particular Account how to order the | Canary-Birds in 

 Breeding; likewise their | Diseases and Cure. | — | The third Edition. | — | 

 London: | Printed for C. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on | Lndgate-Hill. 



