BIBLIOGRAPHY 



Of principal works referred to, arranged chronologically. 



CHAUCER'S WORKS. Tyrwhitt's ed. 



TURNER, W. "Avium Prsecipuarum Historia" (1544), reprint 

 ed., A. H. Evans, 1903. [Contains 132 species, nearly all 

 British, of which 112 have the English names affixed.] 



GESNER, C. " Historise Animalium," liber m, qui est de Avium 

 Natura, Tiguri, 1555. 



CAIUS, J. "Britanni, de Rariorum Animalium," etc. (1570), 

 translated in part by A. H. Evans in App., " Turner on 

 Birds," 1903. 



ALDROVANDUS, U. " Ornithologise, hoc est de Avibus historic," 

 1599. 



CAREW, R. " Survey of Cornwall," 1602. 



DRAYTON, M. " Polyolbion, or a Chorographical Description 

 of Great Britain," 1613. 



SPENSER'S WORKS. Ed. 5 vols, 1845. 



SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS. Ed. Staunton. 



WITHERINGS, J. " Order, Lawes and Ancient Customes of 

 Swannes," 1632. 



BROWNE, SIR THOMAS, Notes and Letters on the Natural 

 History of Norfolk (1662-8) ; ed. by T. Southwell, 1902. 



MERRETT, C. " Pinax, rerum Naturalium Britannicarum," etc., 

 1667. [This is the 2nd ed., the first being dated 1666, 

 and it contains at pp. 170-84 what is usually cited as the 

 earliest list of British Birds, comprising 170 species, for 

 many of which, however, no English name is given.] 



CHARLETON, W. " Onomasticon Zoicon," 1668. 



PLOT, R. " The Natural History of Oxfordshire," 1677. 



WILLUGHBY, F. " Ornithology, in Three Books, wherein 

 all the Birds hitherto known, being reduced into a Method 

 suitable to their natures, are accurately described, trans- 

 lated into English, and enlarged, by John Ray," 1678. 

 [Originally published in Latin in 1676, but the English 

 ed. has been used for the present work.] 



SIBBALD, R. " Scotia Illustrata, sive Prodromus Historic 

 Naturalis," etc., 1684. 



MORTON J. " Natural History of Northamptonshire," 1712. 



RAY, J. " Synopsis Methodica Avium et Piscium," 1713. 



