A COMPENDIUM 



OF 



BRITISH ... 



ORNITHOLOGY, 



WITH A REFERENCE TO THE 



ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF 



BIRDS. 



BY JOHN ATKINSON, F.L.S. 



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Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London ; Corresponding Member 



of the Medico-chirurgical Society of Edinburgh ; Honorary Member of the 



Bristol and Yorkshire Philosophical Societies ; Treasurer of the 



Yorkshire Horticultural Society ; Curator of the Museum, and 



Librarian to the Philosophical and Literary Society, and 



Surgeon to the Lying-in-Hospital, at Leeds. 



" Mil vus in coelo cognovit tempus suum : turter, et 

 hirundo, et ciconia custodierunt tempus adventus 

 sui." JER, 



LONDON: 



PRINTED FOR HURST, ROBINSON AND CO. No. 90, CHEAPSIDE ; 

 AND ROBINSON AND CO. LEEDS. 



