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1771. [Tunsi^lLL, M.] Omithologia Britannica: seu Avium omnium britaniiicarum 



tam terrestrium, quam aquaticarum Catalogus, sermoni latino, anglico et 

 gallico redditns; cui subjicitur Appendix, Aves alienigenas, in Angliam rare 

 advenientes, complectens. [ Auctore Marmaduke Tunstall. ] Londini : J. 

 Dixwell. 1771. folio, pp. 4, 1 pi. 

 Not seen. — I observe late citation of Tunstall as authority for the name Falco peregrinua. 



1772. EUTTY, J. An | Essay | towards a | Natural History | of the | County of Dub- 



lin, I Accommodated to the | Noble Designs of the | Dublin Society; | Afford- 

 ing a summary View | [etc., 17 lines.] | — | By John Rutty, M. D. | — | VoL 

 I [II]. I — I Dublin: printed by W. Sleater, in Castle-street. | For the Author. 

 1772. 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I, pp. i-xiv, 1-4, 1-392, pll. i-v. Vol. II, pp.i-vi, 

 1-488, several folded tables. 



Vol. I. Of Birds, pp. 295-344, pll. ii-v. A considerable account, illustrated -with 4 folded 

 plates, but of no apparent value. 

 1776. Hayes, [Wm.] A | Natural History | of | British Birds, | &c. \ With their Por- 

 traits, I Accurately flrawn, and beautifully coloured from Nature, | By Mr. 

 [William] Hayes. | London: | Printed for S. Hooper, N" 25, Ludgate-HUl, \ 

 M. DCCC. LXXV. 1 vol. folio. Ti*le and pp. 1-24, with 47 unnumbered 

 col'd pU. 



The following is a list of these plates: 1. Hen harrier. 2. Falco torquatus. 3. Sparrow- 

 hawk. 4. Kestrel. 5. Milvus regalis. 6. Chough. 7. Jay. 8. Magpie. 9. Picas variut 

 major. 10. Picus viridis. 10*. "Wryneck. 11. Lapwing. 12. Sea Pie [Rcematopus]. 11. 

 Turtle. 14. Turtur torquatus. 15. Ringdove. 16. Columba tabellaria. 17, 18. Cuckoo. 19. 

 Bittern. 20, 21. Pheasant. 22. Gold Pheasant. 23. Bantam Cock. 24. Bemacle. 25. Brent. 

 26. Tufted Duck, Olaudum minus. 27. Shoveller. 28. Shieldrake. 29. Querquedulae minor. 

 30. W.ater hen. 31. Fieldfare. 32. StsirlLng, 33. Parus longicaudus. 34. Goldfinch. 35. 

 Eortulanus arundinaceus. 30. Bramble finch. 37. Bullfinch. 38. "Wren. 38*. Willow wren. 

 38**. Golden Crested "Wren. 38***. Great Titmouse. 38****. Blue Titmouse. 39. "Whin 

 Chad (sic). 39*. Stone chatter. 40. Redstart. 40*. Redbreast.— 47 plates in all. To some 

 are given quasi-binomial names; but the author is out of the true fold, and his text is worth- 

 less. The plates are far from being as bad as some I have seen. 



17761 Albin, E. a Natural History of English Song Birds, . . . 



This is fh&foicrth edition, which I have not seen. There are .at least five of them: see the 

 third, 1759. 



1776-77. [Pennant, T.] British Zoology. | [By Thomas Pennant.] | Vol.1 [-IV]. | 

 Class I. Quadrupeds. | II. Birds. | Fourth Edition. | Warrington: | printed 

 by William Eyres, | for Benjamin White, at Horace's Head, | Fleet Street, 

 London. | MDCCLXXVI [MDCCLXXVII]. 4 vols. 8vo. Vol. I, 1776, engr. 

 title, 1 1. ; pp. i-sxxiv (incl. printed title), 2 11. (list of plates), pp. 1-152, pll. 

 i-xiv (MaQimals); pp. 153-418, pll. xv-lix (Land Birds). Vol. II, 1776, eng. 

 title ( = pl. Ix), 3 p. 11. (printed title and list of plates), pp. 4]f)-786, pU. 

 Ixi-ciii, i-ix, 1 folded sheet of music. (Vol. Ill, 1776, Reptiles and Fishes. 

 Vol. IV, 1777, Crustacea, Mollusca, and Testacea. ) 



The orig. ed. was 17C6, q. v. The 2d ed. is said to date 1768.— There appears to have been 

 really no 3d ed., but only a second issue of one of the others, doubtless the 2d. 



Obs.—lt is said tbat there were two issues of date 1770-77, one in 8vo, the other in 4to, both 

 entitled "Fourth edition". The difi"erenco is probably only in the 8iz(3 of the paper, the 

 typography and impression being identical. I find among my slips two titles, both relating 

 to this same 4th ed., but taken at different times from different copies; both "8vo", but the 

 collation not identically the same (there being i)p. i-viii and 5 unpaged leaves in one, not in 

 the other). There are several unj)aged pages in the work, which may be bound in different 

 places in different copies, or left out of some. So I let both titles stand, though they refer to 

 the same edition of the same work. The main text, pp. 1-418 in Vol. I, and pp. 419-786 in 

 Vol. n, together with the plates i-ciii, + i-ix -|- 1 sheet of music, are absolutely the same. See 

 next title. 



It is not easy to cite the title of this work, as every line of it, excepting the first, changes 

 with successive volumes. The eng. titles to "Vols. I and II differ again from each other and 

 from the printed titles. The work is ostensibly anonymous, but few authors are better 

 known than Thomas Pennant. This edition, being the fourth, makes many changes in colla- 

 tion from an earlier one. Vols. I and U include the Birds, preceded by the Mammals in VoL I. 



