376 PROCEEDINGS Or UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



1817. FORSTER, T. — Contjjiued. 



p. 38 and p. 39, otliers not. The regular pagination ia simply i-iv, 1-64 ; pp. i, ii, title- 

 leaf; pp. iii, iv, preface ; pp. 1-64, text. The " S.vTioptical Catalogue " nins pp. 1-37 (38 blank), 

 giving 283 .spp., under 55 genera, with author's names in Iloman capitals, Leach's names 

 opposite in Roman lower case, and vernacular synonyms under both. Then follows, p. 39, 

 "Observations on British Ornithology. Article I. Division and Arrangement of British Gen- 

 era and Species of Birds, with references to plates; serving for reference to the descriptive 

 part intended to follow."' Such caption implies that the work is a fragment; for nothing 

 follows. 



The author having found Dr. W. E. Leach's Catalogue of 1816 difficult to use, on account 

 of the newness of many names, he thought that a Catalogue with Leach's and moi-e custom- 

 ary names put together would be useful ; hence this work. Some of the names here given 

 are curious; for the author says: "I have attended to generic and specific diffLTcnces, and 

 thereon founded a nomenclature, regardless of modem names, whenever they appeared to 

 disagree with facts ; but at the same time adhering as much as possible to the views of Aris- 

 totle, .ffilian, Pliny and others of the antient writers." — On the use of Bubo ignavus, p. 3, cf. 

 lUs, 1879, p. 849; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Aug., 1879, p. 159. 



1817. Pitt, W. A | topograpliical | History of Staflbrdshii'e ; | iucludiug its | Agricul- 

 ture, Miaes, aud Maimfactures. | Memoirs of eminent natives; | Statistical 

 tables ; | and every species of information connected with tlie local | history 

 of the county. | With a succinct account of the rise and progress of the | 

 Staffordshire Potteries. | — | Compiled from the most authentic sources, | By 

 William Pitt, | [etc., 2 lines.] | — | Newcastle-under-Lyme : | printed by and 

 for J. Smith, | [etc., 4 lines.] | — | 1817. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. i-sxvi, 1-450, 5 

 unpaged leaves of tables, pp. [1-319], 1 p. errata, 8 11. index. 

 Contains, pp. [145-1-58], a formal list of birds, annotated. 



1817. Young, G. A | History | of | Whitby, | and j Streoneshalh Abbey ; | with a | 



statistical Survey of the vicinity | to the | Distance of Twenty-Five miles : | 

 By the Eev. George Young, . . . Vol. II. | — | Whitby: | printed and sold 

 by Clark and Mead, . . . 1817. 8vo. 

 Vol.11. — m. Zoology, ii. Birds; pp. 797,798; a paragraph, of no consequence. 



1818. Martin, M. A | Voyage | to | Saint Kilda, | The remotest of all the Hybrides, 



I or I Western Islands of Scotland; | [etc., 15 -lines.] | — | By M. Martin, 

 Gent. I — I Printed in the year MDCXCVIII. | — | Gla.sgow ; | re-printed for 

 John Wylie & Co. | By R. Chapman. | — | 1818. 12mo. pp. i-iv, 5-77. 



Forming one of the tracts in Miscellanea Scotica, "Vol. II ; orig. ed., 1698, q. v. It contains, 

 pp. 26-36, a considerable account of wild fowl, as "Gairfowl", Solan Goose, Fulmar, etc. 



1820. Atkinson, J. A Compendium | of the | Ornithology | of | Great Britain | with 

 a reference to the | Anatomy and Physiology of | Birds. | — | By John Atkin- 

 son, F. L. S. I Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, in London, &c. | 

 Curator of the Museum, and Librarian to the Philosophical and | Literary 

 Society at Leeds. | — | "Milvus in ccelo cognovit tempus sunm; turtur, et | 



hirundo, et ciconi<i (nistodieruut tempus adventus | sui." Jer. | — ] 



London: | printed for Hurst, Robinson and Co. No. 90 Cheapside; and | Rob- 

 inson and Co. Leeds. | — | 1820. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. i-xii, 1-232. 



A systematic descriptive synopsis, with occasional anatomical matter; appendiK, on taxi- 

 dermy. 



"The intention of the author, in forming this compendium, was to collect the information 

 scattered through extensive treatises, and tlic transactions of learned societies, — to state the 

 species which have been recently discovered, — and to correct those errors in synonyma, which 

 the difference of feather in different ages, or at certain times in the year, has frequently pro- 

 duced." {Extr. from Preface.) 



1820. [Editorial.] [Notice of the proi>o.s('<l publication of] Selby's Natural History 



of British Birds. < Erliiib. Pliilos. Jouni., iv, 1820, p. 210. 



1821. Bewick, T. A | History | of | British Birds. | The Figures engraved on wood 



by T. Bewick. | Vol.1 [II]. | Containing the | History and Description of 

 Land [Water] Birds; | and | a Supplement, with additional figures, j New- 

 castle : I printed by Edward Walker, Pilgrim Street, | for T. Bewick : sold by 

 him, and E. Charuley, Newcastle; | and Longmau and Co. London. | 1821. 



