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1700. Leigh, C— Contiuued. 



of Pliysick. I — I Oxford : | Printed for the Author : and to be had there at Mr. 

 George West's, | and Mr. Henry Clement's, Booksellers there ; Mr. Edward 

 Evet's, I at the Green Dragon, in St. Paul's Church-yard ; and Mr. John | 

 Nicholson, at the Kiug's-Arms, in Little Britain, London. MDCC. 1 voL 

 sm. folio, frontisp. portrait, eleven prel. 11., pp. [1-4], 11., pp. 1-190, 11.; 

 Book II, pp. 1-97, 1 1. ; Book III, pp. 1-112, 15 11. Index. Many plates. 

 Book I, chap, ix, pp. 157-164, Of Birds : summary notice. 



1704. Merrett, C. Britannicarum Rerum Naturaliuiu Piuax, . . . Londini. Roy- 

 croft. 1704. 



Not seen: title from Engebnann, who, citing the 1667 ed., says that it was reissued in 1704, 

 under the above title. Compare the eds. of 1667 and of 1666. 



1709. RoBixsoN, T. An ! Essay | towards a | Natural History | of | Westmorland [ 



and I Cumberland. | Wherein | An Account is given of their several Mineral | 

 and Surface Productions, with some Dire- | ctions how to discover Miuerala 

 by the Ex- | terual antl Adjacent Strata and Upper Co- | vers, &c. | To which 

 is Annexed, | A Vindication of the Philosophical and Theological | Paraphrase 

 of the Mosaick System of the | Creation, &c. | — | By Tho. Robinson, Rector 

 of I Ousby in Cumberland. | — | London : | Printed by J. L. for W. Freeman, 

 at the I Bible against the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, 1709. 1 vol. 

 8vo. 8 prel. 11., pp. 1-118. 



After his paraphrase of Genesis I, the author presents some "mpr.al conclusions" -whicli 

 Birds help him to draw. 



1710. SiBBALD, R. History, ancient and modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kin- 



ross, with tho descrii^tion of both, and of the Firths of Forth and Tay, and 

 . the Islands in them. Edinburgh. 1710. 



Not seen : said to contain ornithological matter. See the ed- of 1803. 

 1712. Lhwyd, E. a Letter from the late Mr. Edward Lhwyd, Keeper of the Ash- 

 molean Museum in Oxford, to Dr. Tancred Robinson, F. R. S. containing 

 several observations in Natural History, made in his Travels thro' Wales. 

 <^Philos. Trans., xxvii, 1712, pji. 462-465. 



Notices the Grey and Eed Game, Cranes, and some unknown red birds, conjectured to b« 

 Virginia nightingales. 



1712. Lhwyd, E. An Extract from a Letter of Mr. Edw. Lhwyd to Dr. Tancred Robin- 



son ; giving some farther Account of the Birds mentioned in the foregoing 

 Letter. <^PJulos. Trans., xxvii, 1712, p. 466. 

 Relating to the same scarlet birds, on which, however, no farther light is thrown. 



1713. Richardson, R. Several Observations in Natural History, made at North- 



Bierley in Yorkshire, by Dr. Richard Richardson (M. D.) Communicated in a 

 Letter to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Seer. <^Philos. Trans., xxviii, 1713, pp. 167- 

 171. 

 Observations on tho " Nut-batch " or " Nut-jobber " (Sitfa) and on the nest of i?e(7M?«scmtatM*. 



1737. Albin, E. A Natural History of English Song-Birds, . . . 



Tliis is the date of the original edition, which I have not seen. There are at least five : sea 

 tho third, 1759. See also tho anonymous piracy, 1791. 

 1747. Albin, E. A Natural History of English Song-Birds, . . . 



This is the date of the second edition, which I have not seen. There are at least five of 

 them : see the third, 1759. See also tho anonymous piracy, 1791. 



1759. Albix, E. a I Natural History | of | English Song-Birds, | and | Such of the 

 Foreign as are usually brouglit | over and estcem'd for their Singing. | To 

 which arc added, | Figures of the Cock, Hen, and Egg of [ each Species, 

 exactly copied from Nature, | By Mr. Eleazar Albin, | And curiously engraven 

 on Copper. | Also | A particular Account how to order the | CanaryrBirds ia 

 Breeding; likewise their | Diseases and Cure. | — | The third Edition. | — \ 

 Loudon : | Printed for C. Ware, at tho Bible and Sun, on | Ludgate-Hill. 



