A Geographical Bibliography of 



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la^S^SP British Ornithology 



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JHIS work forms a Supplement to or contimiation 

 of Mullens and Swann's Bibliography of British 

 Ornithology (Biographical Volume) completed in 

 1917. It contains the books and articles in that 

 volume arranged under counties, as ^i^^ell as a digest of the enormous 

 mass of published contributions on local avifauna in scientific 

 journals and periodical literature, of which very Httle indeed had 

 been touched for the BiogTaphical volume above mentioned. 



The aim of the authors has been to give as complete as possible 

 an account of the hterature and records relating to each county 

 in the British Islands, and the work cannot fail to be of the utmost 

 value to aU interested in the avifauna of their particular locality. 

 The preparation of these county bibliographies has involved six 

 years of continuous research and the examination of several 

 thousands of volumes. 



The work will, it is hoped, form an important addition to 

 the list of published bibhographies relating to Natural Science. 

 Hitherto the only work deahng solely with the subject has been 

 EUiot Coues's Ornithological Bihliogra/phy (Fourth Instalment) : 

 being a list of Faunal Publications relating to British Birds. 

 Washington [U.S.A.], 1880. 



There are of course bibliographies of General Ornithology 

 such as Engehnann's Bibliotheca Historico-Natnralis, 1846, and 

 the continuation of that work by Carus and Engehnann, and 

 O. Taschenberg ; and Strickland's edition of Agassiz, 1848-54. In 

 these, however, the matter relating to British Ornithology is not 

 separated from "the rest, while Coues's monograph, admirable as 

 it is, contains many omissions and mistakes, besides stopping some 

 thirty-two years short of the period dealt ^^dtll by the present work. 



It is intended to issue the volume in six parts, which will be 

 sold in sets to subscribers. In part six will be given, in addition 

 to the title, preface, etc., a list of the counties with the names of 

 the ornithologists responsible for the completion and revision of 

 the original rough drafts. Acknowledgment will also be made 

 in the preface of other assistance given. 



