392 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1836, Anox.— Coutinued. 



large 8vo. 2 p. 11. (title, contents), pp. i-viii (history of the museum), 1-18^, 

 froutisp. and 1 other plate. 



Systematic list of Birds, pp. 15-66. List of specimens of heads and beaks of Birds, pp. 72- 

 77. Here occurs, p. 74, No. 81, "Head and Leg of the Dodo;" to which circumstance the 

 whole work owes its special value now. 



1836. Anon. A Catalogue of the Collection of British Quadrupeds and Birds, in the 

 Museum of the Camhridge Philosophical Society. Cambridge. 1836. 12mo. 

 Not seen. 



1836. Blyth, E. On the Species of Birds observed, during the last Poui' Years, in the 

 Vicinity of Tooting, SuiTey ; with a few Eemarks on their comparative Num- 

 bers and Distribution. <;^ Loudon's Mag. Jsfat. Hist., ix, 1836, pp. 622-638. 



1836. Blyth, E. [On the Occurrence of the Carrion Crow and Nightingale in Ire- 

 land.] < London's Mag. Nat. Hist., ix, 1836, pp. 546-548. 



1836. "C.J." Some Remarks on Mr. N. Wood's British Song Birds. <^ Loudon's Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., ix, 1836, pp. 515-519. 



1836. "Correspondent." Notice of the Arrival of Twenty-six Species of the Sum- 

 mer Birds of Passage in the Neighbourhood of Carlisle, Cumberland, during 

 the Spring of 1835 ; to which are added a few Observations on some of the 

 scarcer Species of Birds that have been obtained in the same Vicinity from 

 Nov. 10. 1834, to Nov. 10. 1835; and a few Meteorological Remarks on the 

 Spring, Summer, and Autumn of 1835, at Carlisle. <^ Loudon's Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., ix, 1836, pp. 185-187. 



Many titles like this one, covering articles of similar character, and aU signed " Correspond- 

 ent", are given in the present Bibliography. They are, I believe, by J. D. Salmon, who long 

 preserved this pseudonym, as Edward Newman did that of " Eusticus ". 



1836. Cotton, J. The | Song Birds | of | Great Britain ; | containing | delineations of 

 thirty-three Birds, | of the natural size, | (including the genus Sylvia of 

 Latham,) | coloured principally from living specimens, | with | some account 

 of their habits, and occasional directions | for their treatment in confine- 

 ment. I By John Cotton, F. Z. S. | " Nature's sweet voices, always full of love | 

 And joyance." Coleridge. | — | London: M.DCCC. XXXVI. | 1 vol. 8vo, not 

 paged, 33 coloured pll., not numbered. 

 This is a reissue, or 2d. ed. ; orig. ed. 1835, 1835 bis, which see. 



The volume treats very pleasantly of the subject, and gives a coloured plate of the thirty- 

 three species included by the author among the " song birds " of Great Britain. 



1836. Dale, J. C. Egret, Pratincole, Black Woodpecker, Blackchin Grebe [as Brit- 

 ish Birds]. < Loudon's Mag. Nat. Hist., ix, 1836, pp. 598, 599. 



1836. [Editorial.] Remains of birds in the strata of Tilgate Forest, Sussex, Eng- 

 land. <^ SilUm. Am. Jowrn. Sci. , xxix, 1836, p. 362. 



1836. Eyton, T. C. a I Catalogue | of | British Birds. | — | By T. C. Eyton, Esq. | 

 London : | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman ; | and Houls- 

 ton and Son, Paternoster-row. | — | M DCCCXXXVI. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. i-iv, 

 1-67. 



Names, with some little synonymy : arrangement nearly that of Cuvier. The piece also 

 forms a part of the same author's "A History of the Rarer British Birds," 1836, q. v. 



£836. Eyton, T. C. A History | of the | Rarer British Birds. | By T. C. Eyton, Esq. | 

 [Figure. ] | Illustrated with Woodcuts. | London : | Longman, Rees, Orme, 

 Brown, Green, and Longman; | and Houlston and Son, Paternoster-Row. 

 I — I MDCCCXXXVI. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. i-vi, 1 1., pp. 1-101, many woodcuts. 



With which belongs : A f Catalogue | of | British Birds. | — | By T. C. Eyton, 

 esq. I Loudon: | [Same imprint and date.] | pp. i-vi, 1. 1., pp. 1-67. 



The "History" and "Catalogue" are entirely distinct, being separately titled and paged 

 and also published separately ; but together form the volume, tlio Catalogue being included 

 in the table of contents of the History. The History treats of 43 spp., of each of which a fine 

 woodcut is given, and the work is further copiously illustrated with miscellaneous woodcut 



