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1799? Anon. Our [British] Song liirds. | [Quotation, 8 lines.] | London: | Keligious 

 Tract Society, | Instihitod 1799. 1vol. 24nio (:^2 ]>agoti to asignatnrr). ]ip. 

 1, 2 (advts.), i-vi, 7-192. 



One of tlio montlily issues of tlic Society uained. Tlie date at the bottom need not be that 

 of publication, though the booli is named in the advt. as No. 5 of the "irtsr.e of the lirst year". 

 But it may mean the first year in which they published these tract;;, liot th;;t of the existence 

 of tlie Society. The book does not look to mo like so old a one as 17'JO. 



1799. PuLTENiiY, E. " Catalogues of the Birds, Shells and rare Plant.s ol' Dorsetshire, 



from the ncvr and enlarged ed. of Mr. Ilutchins History of tliat County. l)y 

 Ed. Pulteney, M. D. fol. 1799." 

 Not .seen. 



1800. Bkwick, T. [Figures of British Land Birds. 1 voL Svo. Nev.castle. S. 



Hodgson. 1800.] 



Not seen. I know not wliat title to give this, if any. It is asetof the cul:i (liiaoes of Land 

 birds and vignettes), from Vol. I of the "History of British Birds", issued without te^t. Seo 

 1797-1804, Bewick, T. 

 1802. Montagu, G. Ornithological Dictionary ; | or, | Alphabetienl Synoi).sis | of | 

 British Birds. | By | George Montagu, F. L. S. | In tvro volunii's. | Vol. I [11]. 

 I Loudon : | printed for J. White, Fleet street, | by T. Bensloy, Bolt Coiiri. | 

 1802. 2 vols. Svo, not paged. Vol. I, plate of Cirl Bunting, liile-leaf, pji. i- 

 xliv, and sheets B to Y (near 400 pages). Vol. 11, 2 title-pages, sheets B to 

 Y, and erratum slip. 



Vol. I has the Introduction, and the Dictionary A to L, inclusive ; Vol. II. Diclionary JI to 

 Y, and Appendix in the letter S; also, "a List of British Birds, systcmatieally arr.inged into 

 ordiues, genera, and species," occupying 17 pages, Jind a catalogue of the principal authors 

 referred to. 



This is the ed. princei)s. and tlie only one in 2 vols. Tliero is a Supplement, Exeter, 1813 : 

 a 2d ed., Renui<>, 1831 ; a 3d ed., Newman. 180(5. It is one of the most notable of treati.scs on 

 British Birds, as a vade mecnni wliich has held its place at a thousand elbows iov tliree-quar- 

 ters of a centiny. 



Colonel Montagu died June 20, 181.3. 



1802, White, G. {Ed. Markwicl:) The Works, | in | Natural History, | of the late | 



Eev. Gilbert White, A. M. | Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. | Comprising | 

 the Natural History of Selboruo ; | the Naturalist's Calendar ; | and Miscel- 

 laneous Observations, | Extracted from his Paper.s. | To which arc added, | A 

 Calendar and Observations, | By W. Markwick, Esq., F. L. S. | In Two Vol- 

 umes. I London: printed for J. White, Fleet Street, | by T. Bousley, Bolt 

 Court. I 1802. 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I,pp. i-viii, 1-392, pll. 2. Vol. II, i)p. I--:'.!*, 

 pU. 2, col'd, i-epresenting Charadrius himantopus (frontisp.), and '"a hybrid 

 bird" (to face p. 173, wrongly lettered 123). 



Not seen : title and conmieut from Newton, 1877, q. v. 



This is often quoted as Aikin's or Markwiek's ed., but the advt. is signed "J. W[lul<] ', 

 the author's nephew, and gives a brief .sketch of his life. The "Antiquities" arc omitted; 

 the "Calendar" and enlarged "Observations" are included. Seethe orig. ed., 1789; the orig. 

 ed. of the "Calendar" and "Observations", 1795; also the ed. of 1813. 



1803. SiBBALD, E. The | History, | ancient and modern, | of the Slierilfdoms of | Fife 



and Kinross, | with a description of both, | and of the | Firths of Forth and 

 Tay, I and the islands in them; | [etc., 4 lines.] | With an account | pf the nat- 

 ural products of the I Laud and Waters. | By | Sir Robert Sibbald, M. D. | — | 

 [Quotation, 2 lines.] | — | A new edition, | with notes and illustrations. 

 I — I Embellished with elegant engravings. | — | Cn]iar-Fife : | — | Printed 

 by and for E. Tullis, the publisher; | [etc., 4 lines.] | Loudon. | — | 1803. 

 1 vol. 8vo. pp. i-xvi, 1-4G8, 3 11., 4 engravings. 



Date of an earlier ed. is 1710. Compare same author, 1681 



Chap. III.— Concerning the Animals or living Creatures in these two Firths ; of wliich pp. 

 106-115 are devoted to birds, giving a general notice of a few .species of sea-fowl. Of those 

 species not described by Sibbald, the editor adds a short notice, with Linnsean and English 

 V names from Pennant. 



