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1795. [Edwards, G.]— Coutinued. 



or only | shift their Quarters at certain Seasons of the Year. ] To which are 

 added, | Reflections on that truly admirable and wonderful Instinct, the | 

 Annual Migration of Birds! | — | By a Naturalist [George Edwards]. | — | 

 London: | Printed for J. Walker, No. 44, Paternoster-row. | 1795. 8vo. in size, 

 but only 4 11. to a sig. Title-p., pp. v-xv, 1 p. advt.. pp. 1-64. 



This is a later issue: orig. ed. 1780. To judge by the make-up of the copy handled, it may 

 he only other copies of the original, fui'nished with new title-leaf; for after the title-lea^ 

 which is hacked blank, comes unpaged p. v, then paged p. vi. — The contents of the treatise 

 are sulficiently indicated in the title. Much space is devoted, in i)articular, to the migration 

 and alleged hibernation of Swallows, the allegation being discussed and refuted. The author's 

 eminence, no less than his treatment of the subject, makes this a very notable tract. It has 

 become a rare and valuable book. My copy is copiously annotated by a hand unknown to 

 me; it was presented to me in 1879 by S. S. Haldeman, and contains some msc. of his on the 

 fly-leaf. 



1795. Wauxer, R. The | History | of the | Isle of Wight, | Military, | Ecclesiastical, 

 Civil, &■ Natural : | — | to which is added | a view of its agriculture. | — | By 

 the Rev. Richard Warner ; | [etc., 16 lines.] | — | Southampton. | Printed for 

 T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, (successors | t^ Mr. Cadell) in the Strand, Lou- 

 don ; I and T. Baker, Southampton. | — | MDCCXCV. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. i-xiv, 

 1-312; 2 leaves of coins; appendix, jip. 1-14; 1 l.errata; 9 U. index. 



Chap. IV. Of the Ornithology of the Isle of "Wight, pp. 225-246. A considerable account, 

 particularly of the water-fowl. 



1795. White, G. (Ed. Aikin, J.) A | Naturalist's Calendar, | with | Observations in 

 various branches | of ( Natural History; | extracted from the i^apers | of the 

 late I Rev. Gilbert White, M. A. | of Selboiirnc, Hampshire, | Senior Fellow 

 of Oriel College, Oxford. | — | Never before published. | — | London: | printed 

 for B. and J. White, Horace's Head, | Fleet Street. | — | 1795. 1 vol. Sm. 

 8vo or 16mo. pp. i-iv (title and advt., by J. Aikin), ijp. 5-170, -j- 3 11. (con- 

 tents and advt.), with coloured froutis}). ("a hybrid bird", in other cojiies 

 said to face p. 65). 



Copy in the Phila. Acad. Library, handled by me. 



"THE Reverend Mr. White, so agreeably known to the public by his Natural Histoi-y of 

 Selbome, left behind him a series of yearly books, containing his diuiual observations on the 

 occmTences in the various walks of rural nature, from the. year 1768 to the time of his death 

 in 1793. From these annals he had ali-eady extracted all the matter comprised in the work 

 above mentioned, down to the middle of 1787, but several curious facts in the preceding num- 

 bers had not been thus employed; and all the subsequent ones remained untouched. It was 

 thought a mark of respect due to his memory, and to tlie rei)utati(m ho had acquired as a 

 faithful and elegant observer, not to consign. these relicks to neglect. The manuscripts were 

 accordingly put into vay hands for the purpose of selecting from them what might seem wor- 

 thy of laying before the public. The present small publication is the fruit of my research. 

 ..." (Editor's advertisement.) 



The "Calendar" and "Observations" were thus originally printed as a separate book, but 

 were incoi-poiated in many of the subsequent editions of the Nat. Hist. Ant. Selbome. 



It contains the following bird-matter: "Observations on Birds": pp. 57-91; — Birds in gen- 

 eral — Kooks — Thrushes — Poultiy — Hen Partridge — A hj'brid Pheasant (frontisp. or opp. p. 

 65) — Land Bail — food of the King Dove — Hen Harrier — Great Speckled Diver, or Loon — Stono 

 Curlew— Smallest Willow Wren — Fern Owl or Goat Sucker — Sand Martins — Swallows, con- 

 gregating, and disappearance of — Wagtails — Wryneck — Grosbeak. This matter comes in 

 the part of the book entitled "Observations on various parts of nature", following the "Cal- 

 endar". 



1797-1804. Bewick, T. History | of | British Birds. | The Figures ougraYed on wood 

 by T[homas]. Bewick. | Vol. I [II]. | Containing the [ History and Descrijjtion 

 of Laud [Water] Birds. | Newcastle: | printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & 

 Bewick: sold by them, | and 6. G. and J. Robinson, London. | [Price 18s. in 

 Boards.] | 1797 [1804]. 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I, Land Birds, 1797, pp. i-xxx 

 (title, preface, introduction, contents), 1-335, figg. 115. Vol. II, Water Birds, 



1804, pp. , ligg. 113. 



I have seen few editions of "Bewick", and for the titles of most of them, as well as for 

 nearly all that I have to remark respecting them, I am indebted to Prof. A. Newton, in epist. 



