368 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1791. Anon. — Contiuued. 



lencies of their several Sougs. | the Method of rearing them in Cages | & the 

 preparation and choice of their | Food | Also the disorders they are subject 

 to I with the mode of treatment, | Including the history & management | of 

 j Canary Birds | translated from the | French of the | Count de Buffon. | 

 the whole ornamented with Copper Plates | fi-om Drawings after | Nature, j 

 Edinburgh | Printed for Silvester Doig Royal Exchange | 1791 1 vol. 2 

 engr. titles; advt., and contents, each one leaf; pp. 1-192; many plates. 



This is clearly a "bootseller's book", made out of Albin's "Natural History of English 

 Song Birds ", with nearly the same plates, and the text almost word for word in various places, 

 as I ascertain by direct comparison ; variously jjadded in other places. The illustrations are 

 substantially the same, but with the eggs mostly erased from the plates. One may always sus- 

 pect an anonymous book which parades some groat man's name on the title-page, as Buffcn's 

 in this case. — Compare 1759, Albin, E. 



1791-96. Lord, T. Lord's, | Entire New System of | Ornithology. | Or | Oecumenical 

 History, of | British Birds. | [Fig.] | Under the Inspection and Patronage, of 

 the Rev.ii M."" Peters. | Chaplain, to His Royal Highness the | Prince of Wales. 

 I The whole accurately coijied, from the Original Paintings, | now in the pos- 

 session of the I Artist. | With a brief account of their Characters, & Proper- 

 ties. I The writing Corrected, & Embellish'd, by the | Rev.^ D.'' Dupree. | 

 Master of the King's, Free Grammar School, at | Berkhamstead. | London. | 

 Published as the Act directs, May, 30, «» 1791 [-1798]. by the Author. | 1 vol. 

 folio. Engr. title, dedication, introduction, pp. i-vi ; plates 1-114, with as 

 many sheets of letterpress. Pub. in 'S8 parts, of 3 plates and sheets each, from 

 May 30, 1791 to Oct. 1, 1796. 



Each plate is dated, so that the dates of publication may be ascertained for the whole 

 series — the redeeming feature of the work. Engelm^nn gives "(96) 108" plates: but I find 

 in the copy examined the series of (3X38=) 114 complete, though some of the sheets are 

 wrongly numbered, being corrected in msc. 



Given a snob with an "entire new system of ornithology," — a royal chaplain for a patron, — 

 and a reverend pedagogue to correct and embellish the text, all together on one engraved title- 

 page — and the infallible result estops criticism. The Canary bird, and some pigeons and 

 poultry, are included in the "Oecumenical History, of British Birds." 



1791. Markwick, W. On the Migration of certain Birds, and on other Matters re- 

 lating to the feathered Tribes. < Trans. Linn. Soc, i, 1791, j)p. 118-130, pi. xi. 

 General considerations. Tabular view of the appearance and disappearance of 25 spp. of 

 British Birds, from observations in Sussex, 1768 to 1783 ; further commentary on the same ; 

 special description and orig. fig. of Tringa glareola. 



1793. White, G. {German ed., Meyer.) White's Bey trjige | zur | Naturgeschichte von 

 England. | Aus den- Englischen iibersetzt | uud | mit Aumerkungen begleitet 

 I von I Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer, | der Weltweisheit und Arzneyge- 

 lehrtheit Doctor und Privatdoceut | zu Gottingen. | Berlin, 1792. | Bey Hein- 

 rich August Rottmann. IGino. pp. 8 (unnumbered), 168. 



Not seen : title and comment from A. Newton. 



"According to the youthful translator's preface, the original has much chaff (Spreu) in it, 

 but also some corn that is worth transplanting into German soil, which he therefore conde- 

 scends to extract, warning his readers, however, that the book is not for the learned, but 

 only for such as wish to entertain themselves with a little knowledge. The extracts so put 

 together entirely lose their epistolary character, though the translator keeps up the name. 

 Thus "White's first six letters to Pennant are condensed by Meyer into his "Erster Brief," 

 while the last and " Vierzehnter Brief" is compounded of part of White's fifty-eighth to Bar- 

 rington, with a single paragraph from his next, and the final paragraph of the whole Jfat. 

 Hist. Selb. The translation is not very accurate, and the editor's remarks are inserted in the 

 text, between brackets, often with a sneer." 



f 1793. White, G. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbome, . . . 



There is said (by Ag. and Strickl., Bibl, iv, p. 560) to be an edition of this year (that of the 

 author's death) ; "but probably in error", adds Prof. Newton. It may be a misprint for 1792, 

 the date of the German ed., which Ag. and StrickL do not give, unless this be intended for it. 



