374 PROCEEDINGS OF UXITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1811- 18il. GuAVES, G. — Coutiuucd. 



Impressed with the couvictioa that most previous works on British Birds had not 'taken 

 (he necessary pains to mark out the different species ", and being in possession of a consider- 

 able number of excellent diawiugs executed for the late "SVilliam Curt is. 1 lie author submitted 

 these pages to the public. 



181-2. Pkxxaxt, T. Britisli Zoology, | by | ThoiuaH Peiiuaut, Esq. | A New Editiou. | 

 In Four Volumes. | Vol. I [-IV]. | — | CLass I. Quadrupeds. | II. Birds. Div. 



I. Land. | [Div. II. Vv^ater.] | — | Loudon: | i)rintedlbrWilkie andKobinson; 

 [and eleven other booksellers.] I — I 1812. 4 vols. 8vo. Vol. I, prel. title, 

 1 1. ; eugr. title, 1 1. ; printed title, 1 1. ; pp. i-xlviii (dedication, preface, etc.); 

 pp. 1-188, pll. i-xiv (mammals); pp. 189-568, pll. xv-lxvi (Land Birds). Vol. 



II, eug. title, pp. i-viii (incl. titles), pp. 1-452, pll. i-xlviii (Water Birds). 

 (Vol. Ill, Reptiles and Fishes. Vol. IV, Crustacea, Mollusca, Testacea.) 



This is supposed to bo the 5th edition (not counting Murr's Latin-German version) ; 4th, 

 1776-7 ; 3d and 2d, both 17C8-70? ; 1st, 17GC, qq. ro.— It is notable as the first edition hi which 

 the author's name appears on the title. The pagination is entirely different from that of 

 earlier eds., and the pll. are renumbered. 

 1813. Bullock, W. An Account of four rare Species of British Birds. < Tr««.s. Linn. 

 Soc, xi, pt. i, 1813, pp. 175-178. 



Strixnyctea, Tritiga calidris, Hirundo (\) praUncola, Anas africana. 

 1813. Low, G. Fauna Orcadensis: | or, | the Natural History | of the | Quadrupeds, 

 Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, | of | Orkney and Shetland. | By | the Rev. George 

 Low, I Minister of Bii'sa and Haray. | — | From a Manuscript in the posses- 

 sion of Wm. Elford Leach, M. D. F. L. S. ifcc. | — | Edinburgh: | printed by 

 George Ramsay and Company, | for Archibald Constable and Company, Edin- 

 burgh; and for Longman, | Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, — and White, 

 Cochrane, and Co. | London. | — | 1813. 1 vol. 4to. pp. i-xvi, 1-230. 



Class II, Birds, pp. 31-152. Thus more than half the work is devoted to oraithology. 

 It is a systematic treatise on the subject, in due fonn, and has the appearance of being a val- 

 uable contribution. 



"Mr Low's merits, as a laborious and accurate observer of Nature, were, it is believed, 

 scarcely known beyond the narrow circle of his particular friends; and it is to be regretted, 

 that a recent historian* [*the Kev. George Barry, D. D. in his History of Orkney, 4to. 1805.] 

 has not scrupled to avail himself of the advantages which this obscurity offered to a plagiary. 

 It having been the Editor's fortime to procure the MS. Fauna Orcadensis of Mr Low, he now 

 begs leave to lay it before the public, in the fonn in which it was left by its Ileverend Author. 

 It appears to have been revised by the late Mr Pexxaxt, as it contains a few corrections in 

 that gentleman's handwriting. The Editor trusts that it will bo foimd to afford au interest- 

 ing and valuable addition to the Natural History of the British Islands, and prove fai' more 

 useful than the closet compilations of some modern zoologists." (Extr.from Editor's Preface.) 

 1813. Montagu, G. Supplement | to the | Ornithological Dictionary, | or | Synopsis 

 of British Birds. | — | By George Montagu, Esq., F. L. S. A: il. W. S | — | 

 Printed by S. Woolmer, Exeter; | [etc., 7 lines.] | — | 18i:>. 1 vol. Svo. Not 

 paged; title, 1 leaf, backed blank = pp. i, ii ; introduction, ])]). iii-vi; list of 

 plates, lleaf; text, sheets B to Ff. (about 472 pages); I page errata; with 24 

 full-page xilates. 



Eleven years after the appearance of his celebrated Dictionary, Montagu issued this Supple- 

 ment, in sunilar style and spirit. It runs through the alphabet, A to T, as before (sheets 15 to 

 Bb.). Then an appendix retraces the alphabet again, A to S (to sheet Ff.). Eollowing is 

 Definition of the parts of extraordinary trachete belonging to some species of aquatic birds, 

 with a plate ; and Direction for amputating the Wing of a Bird in a Menagerie. A "Cata- 

 logue of additions and alterations to be made in the original li.st of British Birds", &c., 

 finishes the volume. It is illustrated by 24 plates— 23 of birds, 1 of anatomical details. 



Sterna anglica, sp. n., first page of sheet Y, with a plate. Also, Ardca lentiginosa, sp. n. 

 1813. White, G. {Ed. Markwlck.) The | Natural History | of | Selborne, | by the late | 

 Rev. Gilbert Vv'hite, A. M. | Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. | To which are 

 added, | The Naturalist's Calendar, | Miscellaneous Observations, and Poems. 

 I A New Edition, with engravings. ] In two volumes. | London: | printed for 

 White, Cochrane, and Co. | Longman, Hurst, Ree.?, Orme, and Brown; | J. 



