LITERATURE CONSULTED. 



The Ornithology of Francis Willughby. Ed. by John Ray, 1678. 

 Ray's Synopsis Methodica Avium. (Posthumous), 171 3. 

 Philosophical Transactions. Vol. 28. Dr. Richardson, 17 13. 

 Philosophical Transactions. Vol. 60. G. Edwards, 1757. 

 A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. 4 ^'ols. G. Edwards, 



1743-1756. 

 Gleanings of Natural History. 3 Parts. G. Edwards, 1760. 

 Birds of Great Britain. 8 Vols. W. Lewin, 1795. 

 Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary, 18 13. 

 Synopsis of Newcastle Museum, late the Allan, formerly the Tunstall 



Museum. Ed. by G. Townshend Fox, 1827. (The major 



portion of this collection is now in the Middlesbrough Museum.) 

 Extracts from the Correspondence of Dr. Richardson of North 



Bierley, 1835. 

 Memorials of Ray. Ed. by Lankester, 1846. 

 Correspondence of John Ray. Ed. by Lankester, 1848. 

 British Birds. 3 Vols. W. Yarrell. 1843. 

 British Birds. 4th Ed. 4 Vols. By Prof. Newton and Howard 



Saunders, 1871-1885. 

 Essays on Natural History. By Charles Waterton, 1871. 

 Handbook of British Birds. J. E. Harting. 2nd Ed., 1901. 

 British Birds. 4 Vols. H. Seebohm, 1883. 

 The Book of Duck Decoj's. Sir R. Payne-Gallwej', 1886. 

 Birds ol the Humber District. J. Cordeaux, 1872. 

 List of British Birds belonging to the Humber District. J. Cordeaux, 



1889. 

 Birds of Europe. 8 Vols. 1871-1881, and Supplement, 1895-1896. 



H. E. Dresser. 

 Handbook of the Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire. W. Eagle Clarke 



and W. Denison Roebuck (Birds by W. E. Clarke), 1881. 

 Ackworth Birds. W. B. Arundel, 1898. 

 Manual of British Birds. 2nd Ed. Howard Saunders, 1899. 



Of published records all available sources of information, whether 

 natural history journals and publications, or the appendices to topo- 

 graphical works, have been carefully examined. 



The principal district-lists which have been contributed to the 

 natural history periodicals include Leyland's list of Halifax birds 

 (Loudon's Mag. N.H., 1828), Williamson's notes on Scarborough 



