PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 471 



1880. Dixox, C— ContimTed. 



frontispiece in colours, and numerous illustrations | engraved on wood by G. 

 Pearson | London | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 1880 | All rights reserved ( 

 1 vol. IGmo, pp. i-xiv, l-'Ji7i, col'd frontisp., 4 pll. and 41 illnstr. in text. 



"My object in giving publicity to tliis little work has been solely to excite a lovo for the 

 study of the feathered tribes — to place in a popular form the true economy of birds, showing 

 their relations and positiims iu Xatun^'s great system: . . ." The pages are attrat^tivc, as 

 would be expected from the authoi's modest yet firm preface; though many persons may, as 

 he feared they might, wish he had spent more tune among books, if uot less among birds. 

 The volume is quite original, i)resenting some fresh filets, and discussing many interesting 

 questions. It brings the flavor of the woods and fields. 



The volume is reissued at Boston, Mass., by Estes and Lauriat, who purchased the stereo- 

 type plates, and caused a new preface to be written by Dr. Coues, the American editor. The 

 text, however, is identical. (It is just now — May, 1880 — coming out.) 



1880. [TuxsTALL, M.] Ornitliologia Britannica. . . . 



Xot seen. — Orig. ed. 1771, q. v. This is a photolithographic reprint of the scarce tr.act, re- 

 duced in size from the folio original to demy 8vo ; it is issued by " The Willoughby Society," 

 formed in 1879 for the purpose of reprinting certain ornithological works of rarity or utilitj', 

 and i.s the first of the series undertaken. 



"In a Preface by the Editor, Professor Newton, a few particulars are given concerning 

 the author, >Iai-maduke Tunstall, the reader being reminded th.at a memoir of him is given 

 by Fox in his ' Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum,' published in 1827. Ilis museum, includ- 

 ing his collecti(m of birds, which, it is said, cost him several thousand pounds, formed the 

 basis of the Museum at Kewcastle-on-Tyne, and from specimens contained in it were drawn 

 twelve of the figures of birds in Brown's 'Illustrations of Zoology,' and fifty of Bewick's well- 

 known engravings. This catalogue is interesting for its 'rarity' rather than its 'utility,' 

 since it contains no descriptions — merely a list in English, Latin, and I'rench, of the species 

 known to the author as British." (Zoologist, Apr., 1880, p. 159.) 



ADDITIONS AND CORKECTIONS. 

 For most of the following additions and corrections I am indebted to Professor Newton, 

 who kindly examined many of the press-proofs, but whose valued emendations, though com- 

 municated with the utmost expedition, reached me too late for incorporation with the body 

 of the article. 



1667. Merrett, C. Piuax Eerum Naturalium Britannicarnm, . . . 



"I have two copies of this ed., from one of which the original title-page (as printed by you) 

 has been torn out, remains of it being visible, and a new title inserted. This resembles the 

 original in all but the insertion of " Editio Secunda." as the 9th line, and alteration of the 

 last two thus: — I Typis T. Eoycroft, Impcnsis Cave Pulleyn, Prostat ai)ud | Sam. Tomsou in 

 vico vulgo die to Ducklane. 1667. | " 



1753. M.vrtix, M. A | Voyage | to St. Kilda. | The remotest of all the Hebrides, | or 

 Western Lsles of Scotland: | giving | An Acc<mnt of the very remarkable in- | 

 habitants of that Place, their Beauty and sin- | gular Chastity (Fornication 

 and Adtiltery being | unknown among them); their Genius for | Poetry, Mu- 

 sic, Dancing : their surprising Dex- | terity in climbing the Rocks, and Walls 

 of I Houses ; Diversions, Habits, Food, Language, | Diseases and metliods of 

 Cure; their extensive | Charity; their Contempt of Gold and Silver, | as be- 

 low the Dignity of Human Nature; their | Rtdigious Ceremonies, Notion of 

 Si>irits and | Visions, &c. &c. | To which is added, | Au A(-(!ount of Roderick, 

 the late Impostor there, | pretending to be sent by St. John Baptist, with new 

 Reve- I lations and Discoveries; his Diabolical Inventions, At- | tempts upon 

 tbi' Women, &,c. \ By M. Martin, Gent. | The Fourth Editicm, correct(^d. | 

 [Quotaticm of 3 lines from p. 67 of the book.] | London: | Printed ibr Dan. 

 Browne, without Tcmi)l(i-Bar, | and Lockyiir Davis, in Fleet Street. | 

 MDCCLIII. 1vol. 8vo. pp. 71, the last wrongly numlu'ied "63," frontisp., 

 a map, and figg. of two birds. 



Orig. ed. 1698. Earlier cds. are rare. The present is that frimi which the ed. in Pinker- 

 tcm's Fo.vafifc* i.s derived. — Birds are described at pp. 26-36: " The Sea-Fowl are, first, Uair- 

 fowl [Alca impcnniH], being the stateliest, as well as the largest Sort," etc. Birds figured are 

 th(i " Fulmar" [Fulmarns glacialis] and the Assilag [Procellaria pclagica]. Tlie pictun; of 

 the Fulmar w.aa drawn by James Monroe: cf. Edwards's Nut. UUt, p. 289; and Guruoy, 

 Zoologist, 2d ser., xi, 1876, p. 4931 



