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1771. [TUNSTALL, M. ] Oruithologia Britannica : seu Avium omuiiim britannicarum 



tarn terrestrium, quam aqviaticarum Catalogus, sermoni latino, anglico et 

 gallieo redtlitus ; cai subjicitiu' Appendix, Aves alienigenas, in Angliani raro 

 adveuientes, complectens. [Auctore Mannadnke Tnnstall.] Londini : J. 

 Dixwell. 1771. folio, pp.4, 1 pi. 

 Not seen.— I observe late citation of Tnnstall as autlioiity for the name Falco peregrinus. 



1772. EUTTY, J. An | Essay | towards a | Natural Historj- | of the l County of Dub- 



lin, I Accommodated to the | Noble Designs of the | Dublin Society; | Afford- 

 ing a summary View | [etc., 17 lines.] | — | By John Eutty, M, D. | — | Vol. 

 I [II]. I — I Dublin: printed by W. Sleater, in Castle-street. | For the Author. 

 1772. 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I, pp. i-xiv, 1-4, 1-392, pll. i-v. Vol. II, pp. i-vi, 

 1-488, several folded tables. 



Vol. I. Of Birds, pp. 295-344, pll. ii-v. A considerable account, illustrated with 4 folded 

 plates, but of no apparent value. 



1775. Hayes, [Wm.] A | Natural History | of | British Birds, | &c. | With their Por- 

 traits, I Accurately drawn, and beautifully coloured from Nature, | By Mr. 

 , [William] Hayes. | London: | Printed for S. Hooper, N^ 25, Ludgate-Hill, | 

 M. DCCC. LXXV. 1 vol. foUo. Ti4le and pp. 1-24, with 47 unnumbered 

 col'd pll. 



The following is a list of these plates: 1. Hen harrier. 2. Falco torquatus. 3. Sparrow- 

 hawk. 4. Kestrel. 5. Milvus regalia. 6. Chough. 7. Jay. 8. Magpie. 9. Picus varius 

 major. 10. Picus viridis. 10*. Wryneck. 11. Lapwing. 12. Sea Pie [Hcematopus]. 11. 

 Turtle. 14. Turtur torquatus. 15. Ringdove. 16. Golumba tabellaria. 17, 18. Cuckoo. 19. 

 Bittern. 20, 21. Pheasant. 22. Gold Pheasant. 23. Bantam Cock. 24. Bemacle. 25. Brent. 

 26. Tufted Duck, Olaucium minus. 27. Shoveller. 28. Shieldrake. 29. Querquedulae minor. 

 30. W.ater hen. 31. Fieldfare. 32. Starling, 33. Parus longicaudus. 34. Goldfinch. 35. 

 Hortulanus ayundinaceus.* 36. Bramble Qnch. 37. Bullfinch. 38. "Wren. 38*. "Willow wren. 

 38**. Golden Crested "Wren. 38***. Great Titmouse. 38****. Blue Titmouse. 39. "Whin 

 Chad (sic). 39*. Stone chatter. 40. Redstart. 40*. Redbreast.— 47 plates in all. To some 

 are given quasi-binomial names; but the author is out of the true fold, and his text is worth- 

 less. The plates are far from being as bad as some I have seen. 



1776? Albin, E. A Natural History of English Song Birds, . . . 



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

 third, 1759. 



1776-77. [Pennant, T.] British Zoology. | [By Thomas Pennant.] | Vol.1 [-IV]. | 

 Class I. Quadrupeds. | II. Birds, j Fourth Edition. | Warrington: | printed 

 by William Eyres, | for Benjamin "White, at Horace's Head, | Fleet Street, 

 London. | MDCCLXXVI [MDCCLXXVII]. 4 vols. Bvo. Vol. I, 1776, engr. 

 title, 1 1. ; pp. i-xxxiv (incl. printed title), 2 11. (list of plates), pp. 1-152, pll. 

 i-xiv (Mammals); pp. 153-418, pll. xv-lix (Laud Birds). Vol. II, 1776, eng. 

 title (=pl. Ix), 3 p. 11. dmnted" title and list of plates), pp. 419-786, pll. 

 Ixi-ciii, i-ix, 1 folded sheet of music. (Vol. Ill, 1776, Eeptiles and Fishes. 

 Vol. IV, 1777, Crustacea, Mollusca, and Te.stacea.) 



The orig. ed. was 1766, q. v. The 2d ed. is said to date 1768.— There appears to have been 

 really no 3d ed., but only a second issue of one of the others, doubtless the 2d. 



O&s.— It is said that there were two issues of date 1776-77, one in 8vo, the other in 4to, both 

 entitled "Fourth edition". The difference is probably only in the size of the paper, the 

 typography and impression being identical. I find among my slips two titles, both relating 

 to this same 4th ed., but taken at different times from different copies ; both "8vo ", but the 

 collation not identically the same (there being pp. i-viii and 5 unpaged leaves in one, not in 

 the other). There are several unpaged pages in the work, which may be bound in different 

 places in different copies, or left out of some. So I let both titles stand, though they refer to 

 the same edition of the same work. The main text, pp. 1-418 in Vol. I, and pp. 419-786 in 

 Vol. II, together with the plates i-ciii, + i-ix + 1 sheet of music, are absolutely the same. See 

 next title. 



It is not easy to cite the title of this work, as every line of it, excepting the first, changes 

 with successive volumes. The eng. titles to Vols. I and II differ again from each other and 

 from the printed titles. The work is ostensibly anonymous, but few authors are better 

 known than Thomas Pennant. This edition, being the fourth, makes many changes in colla- 

 tion from an earlier one. Vols. I and II include the Birds, preceded by the Mammals in Vol. I. 



