368 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED ."STATES NATIONAL IMUSEUM. 



1791. Axon. — Coutiuued. 



leiuries of thejr scsveral 8oiigs. | the JNk-lliod of rearing lliciu in Cages j & the 

 l)reparatioii and choice of tlieir | Food | Also the disorders tliey arc subject 

 to I with the mode of treatment, | Including tlie history & management | of 

 I Canary Birds | translated li-om the | French of the | Count de Buffou. | 

 the whole ornamented with Copper Plates ] from Drawings after | Nature, | 

 Edinburgh | Printed for Silvester Doig Royal Exchange | 1791 1 vol. 2 

 eugr. titles ; advt., and contents, each one leaf; i)p. 1-192 ; many plates. 



This is clearly a "bookseller's book", made out of Albiu's "Natural History of English 

 Song Birds ", with nearly the same plates, and the text almost word for word in various places, 

 as I ascertain by direct comparison ; variously padded in other places. The illustrations are 

 substantially the same, but with the eggs mostly erased from the plates. One may always sus- 

 pect an anonymous book which parades some gi-eat man's name on the title-page, as Buffon's 

 in this case. — Compare 17.59, Albin, E. 



1791-96. Lord, T. Lord's, | Entire New System of | Ornithology. | Or | Oecumenical 

 History, of | British Birds. | [Fig.] | Under the Inspection and Patronage, of 

 the Rev.d M.-- Peters. | Chaplain, to His Royal Highness the | Prince of Wales. 

 I The whole accurately copied, from the Original Paintings, | now in the pos- 

 session of the I Artist. | With a brief account of their Characters, & Proper- 

 ties. I The writing Corrected, & Embellish'd, by the | Rev.^ D.^ Dupree. | 

 Master of the King's, Free Grammar School, at | Berkhamstead. | London. | 

 Pxiblished as the Act directs. May, 30, «> 1791 [-1796]. by the Author. | 1 vol. 

 folio. Engr. title, dedication, introduction, pp. i-vi ; plates 1-114, with as 

 many sheets of letterpress. Pub. in 38 parts, of SiJlates and sheets each, from 

 May 30, 1791 to Oct. 1, 1796. 



Each plate is dated, so that the dates of publication. may be ascertained for the whole 

 series— the redeeming feature of the work. Engelmann gives "(96) 108" plates: but I find 

 in the copy examined the series of (3X38=) 114 'complete, though some of the sheets aro 

 wrongly numbered, being coiTccted in msc. 



Given a snob with an "entire new system of ornithology,'' — a royal chaplain for a patron, — 

 and a reverend pedagogue to correct and embellish the text, all together on one engraved title- 

 page — and the infallible result estops criticism. The Canary bird, and some pigeons and 

 poultry, are included in the "Oecumenical History, of British Birds." 



1791. Markwick, W. On the Migration of certain Birds, and on other Matters re- 



lating to the feathered Tribes. < Travs. Linn. Soc, i, 1791, pp. 118-130, pi. xi. 

 General considerations. Tabular view of the appearance and disappearance of 25 spp. of 

 British Birds, from observations in Susses, 1768 to 1783 ; further commentary on the same ; 

 special description and orig. fig. of Tringa glareola. 



1792. White, G. (German ed., Meyg^.) White's Bey triige | zur | Naturgeschichte von 



England. | Aus den- Euglischen iibersetzt | und | mit Anmerkungen begleitet 

 I von I Friedrich Albrccht Anton Meyer, j der Weltweisheit und Arzneyge- 

 lehrtheit Doctor und Privatdocent | zu Gottingen. | Berlin, 1792. | Bey Hein- 

 rich Augu.sl Rottmann. 16mo. pp. 8 (unnumbered), 168. 



Not seen : title and comment from A. Newton. 



"According to the youthful translator's preface, the original has much chaff (Sprett) in it, 

 but also some corn that is worth transplanting into German soil, which he therefore conde- 

 scends to extract, warning his readers, however, that the book is not for the learned, but 

 only for such as wish to entertain themselves with a little knowledge. The extracts so put 

 together entirely lose their epistolary character, though the translator keeps up the name. 

 Thus White's first six letters to Pennant are condensed by Meyer into his "Erster Brief," 

 while the last and " Vierzehnter Brief" is compounded of part of "White's fifty-eighth to Bar- 

 rington, with a single paragraph from his next, and the final paragi'aph of the whole Xat. 

 Hist. Sell. The translation is not very accurate, and the editor's remarks are inserted in the 

 text, V)etween brackets, often with a sneer." 



? 1793. White, G. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbome, . . . 



There is said (by Ag. and Strickl., BiU., iv, p. 560) to bo an edition of this year (that of the 

 author's death) ; ' ' but probably in eiror ", adds Prof Newton. It may be a misprint for 1792, 

 the date of the German ed., which Ag. and Strickl.'do not give, unless this be intended for it. 



