372 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL ilUSEUM. 



1799? Anon. Our [Britisli] Song Birds. | [Quotation, 8 lines.] | London: | Religious 

 Tract Society, I Instituted 1799. 1vol. 24nio (32 pages to a signature), pp. 

 1, 2 (advts.), i-vi, 7-192. 



One of the montlily issues of the Society named. The date at the bottom need not he that 

 of publication, though the book is named in the advt. as !No. 5 of the "issue of the first year". 

 But it may mean the first year in .which they published these tracts, not that of the existence 

 of the Society. The book does not look to me like so old a one as 1799. 



1799. PULTENEY, R. " Catalogues of the Birds, Shells and rare Plants of Dorsetshire, 



from the new and enlarged ed. of Mr. Hutchins History of that County, hy 

 Ed. Pulteney, M. D. fol. 1799." 

 Not seen. 



1800. Bewick, T. [Figures of British Land Birds. 1 vol. 8vo. Newcastle. S. 



Hodgson. 1800.] 



Not seen. I know not what title to give this, if any. It is a set of the cuts (figures of Land 

 birds and vignettes), from Vol. I of the "History of British Birds", issued without text. See 

 1797-1804, Bewick, T. 

 1802. Montagu, G. Ornithological Dictionary ; | or, | Alphabetical Synopsis | of ( 

 British Birds. | By | George Montagu, F. L. S. | In two volumes. | Vol. I [II]. 

 I Loudon : | printed for J. White, Fleet street, | by T. Bensley, Bolt Court. | 

 1802. 2 vols. 8vo, not paged. Vol. I, plate of Cirl Bunting, title-leaf, pp. i- 

 xliv, and sheets B to Y (near 400 pages). Vol. II, 2 title-pages, sheets B to 

 Y, and erratum slip. 



Vol. I has the Introduction, and the Dictionary A to L, inclusive ; Vol. II, Dictionary M to 

 T, and Appendix in the letter S; also, "a List of British Birds, systematically arranged into 

 ordines, genera, and species," occupying 17 pages, and a catalogue of the principal authors 

 referred to. 



This is the ed. princeps, and the only one in 2 vols. There is a Supplement, Exeter, 1813 j 

 a 2d ed., Ecnnie, 1831 ; a 3d ed., Newman, 1866. It is one of the most notable of treatises on 

 British Birds, as a vade mecum which has held its place at a thousand elbows £or three-quar- 

 ters of a century. 



Colonel Montagu died June 20, 1815. 



1802. White, G. (Ed. Markicick.) The Works, | in | Natural History, | of the late | 



Rev. Gilbert White, A. M. | Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. [ Comprising j 

 the Natural History of Selborne; | the Naturalist's Calendar; | and Miscel- 

 laneous Observations, | Extracted from his Papers. | To which are added, | A 

 Calendar and Observations, | By W. Markwick, Esq., F. L. S. | In Two Vol- 

 umes. I London : printed for J. White, Fleet Street, | by T. Bensley, Bolt 

 Court. I 1802. 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I, pp. i-viii, 1-392, pll. 2. Vol. II, pp. 1-330, 

 pll. 2, col'd, representing Charadrius himantopus (frontisp.), and "a hybrid 

 bird" (to face p. 173, wrongly lettered 123). 



Not seen : title and comment from Newton, 1877, q. v. 



This is often quoted as Aikin's or Markwick's ed., but the advt. is signed *'J. ^[hite]", 

 the author's nephew, and gives a brief sketch of his life. The "Antiquities" are omitted; 

 the "Calendar" and enlarged "Observations" are included. Seethe orig. ed., 1789; the orig. 

 ed. of the "Calendar "and "Observations", 1795; also the ed. of 1813. 



1803. SiBBALD, R. The | History, | ancient and modern, | of the Sheriffdoms of | Fife 



and Kinross, | with a description of both, | and of the | Fii-ths of Forth and 

 Tay, j and the islands in them; | [etc., 4 lines.] | With an account | of the nat- 

 ural products of the I Land and Waters. | By | Sir Robert Sibbald, M. D. | — | 

 [Quotation, 2 lines.] | — | A new edition, | with notes and illustrations. 

 I — I Embellished with elegant engravings. | — | Cupar-Fife : | — | Printed 

 by and for R.Tullis, the publisher; | [etc., 4 lines.] | London. | — | 1803. 

 1 vol. 8vo. pp. i-xvi, 1-468, 3 11., 4 engravings. 



Date of an earlier ed. is 1710. Compare same author, 1684. 



Chap. HI.— Concerning the Animals or living Creatures in these two Pirths ; of which pp. 

 106-115 are devoted to birds, giving a general notice of a few species of sea-fowl. Of those 

 species not described by Sibbald, the editor adds a short notice, with Linnaean and English 

 names from Pennant. 



