PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 471 



18S0. Dixox, C— Continued. 



frontispiece in colours, and numerous illustrations ] engraved on wood by G. 

 Pearson | London | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 18ri0 | All rights reserved | 

 1 vol. 16mo. pp. i-xiv, 1-374, col'd frontisp., 4 pll. and 41 illustr. in text. 



"My object in giving publicity to this littlo work has been solely to excite a love for the 

 study of the feathered tribes— to place in a popular form the true economy of birds, showing 

 thrir relations and positions in ^Nature's great system; . . ." The pages are attractive, as 

 would bo expected from tlie author's modest yet firm preface; though many persons may, as 

 he feared they might, wish he had spent more time among books, if not less among birds. 

 The volume is quite original, presenting some fresh facts, and discussing many interesting 

 questions. It brings the flavor of the woods and fields. 



The volume is reissued at Boston, Mass., by Estes and Lauriat, who purchased the stereo- 

 type plates, and caused a new preface to be written by Dr. Coues, the American editor. The 

 text, however, is identical. (It is just now— May, 1880— coming out.) 

 1880. [TuxsTALL, M.] Ornithologia Britannica. ... 



Not seen. — Orig. ed. 1771, q. v. This is a photolithographic reprint of the scarce tract, re- 

 duced in size from the folio original to demy 8vo ; it is issued by " The Willoughby Society," 

 formed in 1879 for the purpose of reprinting certain ornithological works of rarity or utility, 

 and is the first of the series undertaken. 



"In a Preface by the Editor, Professor Newton, a few particulars are given concerning 

 the author, Mannaduke Tunstall, the reader being reminded that a memoir of him is gi\en 

 by Fox in his ' Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum,' published in 1827. His museum, includ- 

 ing his collection of birds, which, it is said, cost him several thousand pounds, foi-med the 

 basis of the Museum at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and from specimens contained in it were drawn 

 twelve of the figures of birds in Brown's 'Illustrations of Zoology,' ahA fifty of Bewick's well- 

 known engravings. This catalogue is interesting for its 'rarity' rather than its 'utility,' 

 since it contains no desciiption.? — merely a list in English, Latin, and I'rench, of the species 

 known to the author as British." {Zoologist, Apr., 1880, p. 159.) 



ADDITIONS AND CORKECTIONS. 



For most of the following additions and corrections I am indebted to Professor Newton, 

 who kindly examined many of the press-proofs, but whose valued emendations, though com- 

 municated with the utmost expedition, reached me too late for incorporation with the body 

 of the article. 

 1667. Merrett, C. Piuax Eerum Naturalium Britannicarum, . . . 



"I have two copies of this ed., from one of which the original title-page (as printed by you) 

 has been torn out, remains of it being visible, and a new title inserted. This resembles the 

 original in all but the insertion of " Editio Secunda." as the 9th line, and alteration of the 

 last two thus :— I Typis T. Eoycroft, Impensis Cave Pulleyn, Prostat apud | Sam. Tomson in 

 vico vulgo dicto Ducklane. 1G67. | " 

 1753. M.\RTiN, M. A I Voyage | to St. Kilda. | The remotest of all the Hebrides, | or 

 Western Isles of Scotland : | giving | An Account of the very remarkable in- | 

 habitants of that Place, their Beauty and sin- | gular Chastity (Fornication 

 and Adultery being | unknown among them) ; their Genius for | Poetry, Mu- 

 sic, Dancing : their surprising Dex- | terity in climbing the Rocks, and Walls 

 of I Houses ; Diversions, Habits, Food, Language, | Diseases and methods of 

 Cure ; their extensive | Charity ; their Contemjjt of Gold and Silver, | as be- 

 low the Dignity of Human Nature; their | Religious Ceremonies, Notion of 

 Spirits and | Visions, &c. &c. | To which is added, | An Account of Roderick, 

 the late Impostor there, | pretending to be sent by St. John Baptist, with new 

 Reve- I lations and Discoveries ; his Diabolical Inventions, At- | tempts ujiou 

 the Women, &c. | By M. Martin, Gent. | The Fourth Edition, corrected. | 

 [Quotation of 3 lines from p. 67 of the book.] | London: | Printed for Dan. 

 Browne, without Temple-Bar, | and Lockyer Davis, in Fleet Street. | 

 MDCCLIII. 1vol. 8vo. pp. 71, the last wrongly numbered "63," frontisp., 

 a map, and figg. of two birds. 



Orig. ed. 1G98. Earlier eds. are rare. The present is that from which the ed. in Pinker- 

 ton's Voyages is derived.— Birds are described at pp. 26-36: "The Sea-Fowl are, first, Gair- 

 fowl [Alca impennis], being the stateliest, as well as the largest Sort," etc. Birds figured are 

 the "Fulmar" [Fulmarus glaeiaUs] and the Assilag [Procellaria pelagica]. The picture of 

 the Fulmar was drawn by James Monroe: cf. Edwards's Nat. Hist, p. 289; and Gurney, 

 Zoologist, 2d ser., xi, 1870, p. 4931 



