362 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1676. P[lot], R. The | Natural History 1 of | Oxfordshire, 1 Beiug an Essay toward 

 the Natural History | of | England. | — | ByR[obert]. P[lot]. LL. D. | [Greek 

 quotation, 3 lines.] | [Engraving.] | Printed at the Theater in Oxford, and 

 are to be had there : | And in London at Mr. S. Millers, at the Star near the 

 I West-end of St. Pauls Chnrch-yard. 1677. | The price in sheets at the 

 Press, nine shillings. | To Suhscvibera, eight shillings. 1 yoI. folio, fly-leaf 

 with imprimatur; title, backed blank, 1 leaf; to Charles II, 1 leaf; to 

 reader, 3 leaves; text, pp. 1-358; errata, 1 leaf; index, 5 leaves; map, and 

 pU. 16. 



"We have no Greek font that will reproduce the motto of the title. 



Chap. Vn, Of Brutes, pp. 175-179, H 3-17, relate to Birds, in the author's "learn'd and curi- 

 ous manner." Pig. of a bird, pi. x, f. 3. 



1678. Moray, R. A Description of the Island Hirta. < PMlos. Trans., xii, 1678, pp. 

 927-929. 

 With reference to the Birds. 



1684. SiBBALD, R. Scotia lUustrata, | sive | Prodromus | Historiai Naturalis | in quo 

 I Regionis natura, lucolarum Ingenia & Mores, Morbi iisque medendi Meth- 

 odus, & I Mediciua Indigena accurratfe explicantur; | et Multiplices Natursa 

 Partus in triplice ejus Regno, Vegetabili scilicet, Aniuiali & Minerali | per 

 hancce Borealem Magnse Britaniaj Partem, quae Autiquissimum Scotiae | 

 Regnum constituit, undiquaque diffusi nunc primum in Lucem eruuntur, & 

 I varii eorum Usus, Medici prsesertim & Mechanic], quos ad Vitse | cum 

 necessitateni, turn commoditatem prsestant, cunctis | jperspicue exponuutur. 

 I — I Cum figuris ajneia. | Opus viginti Annorum | Serenissimi Domini Regia 

 Caroli. II. Magnie Britanniae, &g. | Monarchae Jussu editum. | Auctoro 

 Roberto Sibbaldo M. D. Equite Aurato, Medico & Geographo | Regio, & 

 Regii Medicorum Collegii apud Edinbvrgvm Socio. | [Fig.] | Ediubvrgi, | 

 Ex OfQciuSi Tyi)ographica Jacobi Kniblo, Josuae Solmgeusis | &■ Johannis 

 Colmarii, Sumptibus Auctoris. | — | Anno Domini M. DC. LXXXIV. 1 vol. 

 folio. 5 p. 11., + 3 11. Pars Secuuda specialis, tomus i^rimus, 3 p. 11., pp. 1-114, 

 3 11. Pars Secunda specialis, tomus secundus, 3 p. 11., pp. 1-5G, 2 11., pll. 1-28. 

 Ipsum verd opus prodromum in duas Partes divisum est ; Prima Generalis duos contineoa 

 Libros. Secunda Pars specialis est, et quatuor Libris constat; quorum Tertius de Anlmali- 

 bus Scotiai tam feris quam domesticis agit ; cujus Sectio Tertia de Avibus, pp. 11-22, tractat: 

 Caput I, do avibua in genere; II, de avibus terrestribus camivoris; III, de avibus grani- 

 voris; IV, de aviculis; V, de avibus aquaticis flssipedibus ; VI, de avibus palmipedibas; 

 VU, de avibus quibusdam, qufe incertaj classis sunt. 



1686. Plot, R. The | Natural History | of | Stafford-Shire. | By | Robert Plot. LLD. 

 I Keejjer of the | Ashmolean Musjeum | And Professor of Chymistry | in the | 

 University | of | Oxford. ( — | Ye shall Describe the Land, and bring the 

 Description hither to Me. Joshua 8 v. 6. | — | [Engraving.] | Oxford. | 

 Printed at the Theater, Anno M. DC. LXXXVI. 1 vol. folio. Title, backed 

 ■with imprimatur, 1 leaf; to James II, 1 leaf; preface, 1 leaf; poetry to James 

 II, 2 leaves; to Dr. Plot, 1 leaf; same in Latin, | leaf; directions, i leaf; 

 index, 1 leaf; text, pp. 1-450 ; index, 5 leaves ; map, and i>ll. 37. 



Chap. VII. Of Brutes, in which the ingenious and curious author considers such as " 1. 

 either wholly undescribed, by any Author I have yet met with ; or 2. have not been noted by 

 the learned Mr. "WUlughby or Mr. Eay to be indigenae of this County ; or 3. have had very 

 extraordinary accidents attending them." Birds are treated, t[ 2-17, pp. 228-236, pi. xix ; also 

 pL xxii, f. 1. 



1698. Martin, M. A late Voyage to St. Ivilda , . . . 



Not seen: contains ornithological matter. See the ed. of 181S. There are many eds., in 

 various places ; it had reached a 4th in 1753. 



1700. Leigh, C. The | Natural History | of | Lancashii-e, Cheshire, | and the | Peak, 

 in Derbyshire: | with an | Account | of the | British, Phiruieiau, Armenian, 

 Or. and Rom. | Antiquities in those Parts. | — | By Charles Leigh, | Doctoi 



