19] BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. 1772-1778 585 



1772. KALM, P. Continued. 



of Sciences. | Translated into English | By John Reinhold Forster, 

 F. A. S. | Enriched with a Map, several Cuts for the Illustration of 

 Natural | History, and some additional Notes. | | The second edi- 

 tion. | | In two volumes, | Vol. I [II]. | | London, | Printed for 

 T. Lowndes, N 77, in Fleet-street. 1772. 2 vols. sm. 8vo. Vol. I, 

 pp. i-xii, 1-414, 6 pll. Vol. II, map, pp. i-iv, 1-423, with 4 11. of 

 index. 



This edition followed immediately after the first English version of 3 vols. 8vo, 

 1770-1771. " No circumstance interesting to natural history or to any other part 

 of literature has been omitted." The illustrations, as well as Forster's notes, 

 are additional to the original Swedish. Xalm was a good observer, and told 

 what he saw in a straightforward simple way. The book is full of zoological 

 matter passim, in which ornithology is fairly represented, not under any special 

 head; and these accounts are among the bases of several Linnaean species, 

 though largely anticipated by Catesby and Edwards. Among the species noticed 

 are the Bluebird, Catbird, Crow, Gull, Hummingbird, Maize-thief (Agelceus), 

 Martin, Mockingbird, Partridge, Wild Pigeon, Cardinal Redbird, Snow Bunt- 

 ing, Ptarmigan, Swallow (with editor's excursus on the subaqueous torpidity of 

 these birds), Titmouse, Turkey, Whippoorwill, "Woodpeckers (list of the latter, 

 I, pp. 377-379), etc. Figured in vol. I, Mockingbird and Robin, pi. opp. p. 170 ; 

 Purple Grakle and Red-shouldered Blackbird, pi. opp. p. 368 ; Wild Pigeon, pi. 

 opp. p. 374. Of. the ong. ed., 1753-61 ; and German version, 1754-64. 



1774. CURTIS, R. Particulars of the Country of Labradore, extracted from 

 the Papers of Lieutenant Roger Curtis, of His Majesty's Sloop the 

 Otter, with a Plane-Chart of the Coast. < Philos. Trans, for 1774, 

 Ixiv, pt. ii, 1774, pp. 372-388. 

 Short account of the birds, pp. 377, 378. 



1774. Du PRATZ, LE P. The | History | of | Louisiana, | or of | the western 

 parts | of | Virginia and Carolina: | Containing a Description of 

 the I Countries that lie on hoth Sides of the River Missisippi : | 

 With an Account of the | settlements, inhabitants, soil, climate, 

 and products. | | Translated from the French | Of M. Le Page 

 Du Pratz ; | With some Notes and Observations relating to our 

 Colonies. | | A new edition. | | London, | Printed forT. Becket, 

 Corner of the Adelphi, in the Strand. | | MDCCLXXIV. 1 vol. 

 8vo. 4 p. 11., pp. i-xxxvi, 1-387, 2 maps. 



In this edition, Chap. VII, " Of Birds and Flying Insects ", is at pp. 271-283. 

 See orig. ed., 1758. 



1776. KALM, P. Beskrifning pa Norr-Americanske Mulbarstradet, Morus 



rubra kalladt. < Kongl. Svensk. Vetens. Acad. HandL, xxxvii, 1776, 

 pp. 143-163. 



Mulberries as food of various birds, etc., p. 155. 



1777. CHARLEVOIX, F. X. DE. Histoire de la Nouvelle France Paris, 



1777. 12mo. 



Kot seen. 



1778. CARVER, J. [Travels, etc.] 



The editio princeps ; not seen by me. There are several others, two of which are 

 fully cited below, 1781 and 1796. The work of the celebrated traveller presents 

 formal notice and description of about 40 spp. of birds, including the tradi- 

 tional " "Wakon-bird ", about which various Indian superstitions cluster. 



