374 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1811-1821. Graves, G.— Coutiuued. 



Impressed with the conviction that most previous works on British Birds had not "taken 

 the necessary pains to mark out the different species ", and being in possession of a consider- 

 able number of excellent drawings executed for the late William Curtis, the author submitted 

 these pages to the public. 



1812. Pennant, T. Britisli Zoology, | by | Thomas Peuuant, Esq. | xV New Editiou. | 



In Four Volumes. | Vol. I [-IV]. | — | Class I. Quadrupeds. | II. Birds. Div. 



I. Land. | [Div. II. Water.] | — | London: | printed for Wilkie and Robinson; 

 [and eleven other booksellers. ] | — | 1812. 4 vols. Svo. Vol. I, prel. title, 

 1 1. ; eugr. title, 1 1. ; printed title, 1 1. ; pp. i-xlviii (dedication, preface, &c.); 

 pp. 1-188, pU. i-xiv (mammals) ; pp. 189-568, pll. xv-lxvi (Laud Birds). Vol. 



II, eng. title, pp. i-viii (incl. titles), pp. 1-452, pll. i-xlviii (Water Birds). 

 (Vol. Ill, Reptiles and Fishes. Vol. IV, Crustacea, Mollusca, Testacea.) 



This is supposed to be the 5th edition (not counting Murr's Latin-German version) ; 4th, 

 1776-7 ; 3d and 2d, both 1768-70? ; 1st, 17CG, qq. Di'.— It is notable as the first edition in which 

 the author's name appears on the title. The pagination is entirely different from that of 

 earlier eds., and the pll. .are renumbered. 



1813. Bullock, W. An Account of four rare Species of British Birds. < Trans. Lbm. 



Soc.f xi, pt. i, 1813, pp. 175-178. 



Strix nyctea, Tringa calidris, Hirundo (!) pratineola, Anas africana. 

 1813. Low, G. Fauna Orcadensis: | or, | the Natural History | of the | Quadrupeds, 

 Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, | of | Orkney aud Shetland. | By | the Rev. George 

 Low, I Minister of Birsa and Haray. | — | From a Manuscript in the posses- 

 sion of Wm. Elford Leach, M. D. F. L. S. &c. | — | Edinburgh: | printed by 

 George Ramsay and Company, | for Archibald Constable and Company, Edin- 

 burgh; and for Longman, | Hui'st, Rees, Orme, and Brown, — and White, 

 Cochrane, and Co. | London. | — | 1813. 1 vol. 4to. pji. i-xvi, 1-230. 



Class U, Birds, pp. 31-152. Thus more than half the work is devoted to ornithology. 

 It is a systematic treatise on the subject, in due form, and has the appearance '>f being a val- 

 uable contribution. 



"Mr Low's merits, as a laborious and accurate observer of IN^ature, were, it is believed, 

 scarcely known beyond the narrow circle of his particular friends ; aud it is to be regretted, 

 that a recent historian* [*the Eev. George Barry, D. D. in his llistory of Orkney, 4{o. 1805.} 

 has not scrupled to avail himself of the advantages which this Obscurity offered to a i)lagiary. 

 It having been the Editor's fortune to procure the MS. Fauna Orcadensis of Mr Low, he now 

 begs leave to lay it before the public, in the form in which it was left by its Ecverend Author. 

 It appears to have been revised by the late Mr Pennant, as it contains a few corrections in 

 that gentleman's handwriting. The Editor trusts that it will be found to aft'ord an interest- 

 ing and valuable addition to the Natural History of the British Islands, aud jirove far more 

 useful than the closet compilations of some modern zoologists." {Extr.from Editor's Preface.) 



1813. Montagu, G. Supplement | to the | Ornithological Dictionary, | or | Synopsis 

 of British Bmls. 1 — | By George Montagu, Esq., F. L. S. & M. W. S | — | 

 Printed by S. Woolmer, Exeter ; | [etc., 7 Lines.] | — | 1813. 1 vol. 8v(). Not 

 paged; title, 1 leaf, backed l(lank = x>p. i, ii; introduction, pp. iii-vi; list of 

 plates, lleaf; text, sheets B to Ff. (about 472 pages); 1 page errata; with 24 

 full-i^age plates. 



Eleven years after the appear.ance of his celebrated Dictionary, Montagu issued tlus Supple- 

 ment, in similar style and spirit. It runs through the alphabet, A to T, as before (slieets B to 

 Bb.). Then an appendix retraces the alphabet again, A to S (to sheet Ff.). Following ia 

 Definition of the parts of extraordinary tracheae belonging to some species of aquatic birds, 

 with a plate; and Direction for amputating the Wing of a Bird in a Menagerie. A "Cata- 

 logue of additions and alterations to be made in the original list of British Birds", &o., 

 finishes the volume. It is illustr-ated by 24 plates— 23 of birds, 1 of anatomical details. 



Sterna angliea, sp. u., first page of sheet T, with a xdate. Also, Ardea lentiginosa, sp. n. 



1813. White, G. (Ed. MarkwicJc.) The | Natural History | of | Selborne, | by the late | 

 Rev. Gilbert White, A. M. [Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. | To which are 

 added, | The Naturalist's Calendar, | Miscellaneous Observations, and Poems. 

 I A New Editionj with engravings. | In two volumes. | London : | printed for 

 White, Cochrane, aud Co. | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; \ J. 



