132 BRITISH BIRDS. [ VoL. XI. 
was presented by him to the library of the Zoological Society 
of London, certain pages which are missing have actually 
been supplied in print closely resembling the original. Recent 
enquiries in America show that there are no copies in any 
of the public libraries of the United States, and Hunt’s British 
Ornithology would appear to be non-existent in that country, 
unless perhaps there may be copies in the hands of booksellers 
or in private collections. 
The subsequent notes have been compiled after a careful 
collation of my own copy and the copies in the libraries of 
Mr. W. H. Mullens; Mr. Russell James Colman; Lord 
Lilford; Mr. J. H. Gurney; The British Museum; The 
Newton Library, Zoological Laboratories, Cambridge ; Zoo- 
logical Society of London; Zoological Library, Natural 
History Museum, Cromwell Road, London; The Linnzan 
Society, London; The Public Library, Norwich, and one or 
two other copies which are so imperfect as to be of compara- 
tively little value. The only complete copies which I have 
seen are my own and those in the libraries of Mr. Colman, Lord 
Lilford, and Mr. Mullens, who possesses two such copies. 
The following advertisement in the Norwich Mercury of 
30th December, 1815, proves that, although the title-page of 
Vol. I of the work is dated 1815, it was not published in that 
year :— 
“ On Monday, January 1, 1816, will be Published, Price 2s. 6d., No. 1, 
of A CHEAP AND ELEGANT EDITION OF BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY, inscribed 
by Permission to Sir J. E. Smrrn, M.D., F.R.S., and President of the 
Linnean Society. The Work will contain PORTRAITS OF ALL THE 
British Brrps—Drawn, Engraved, and Coloured after Nature. By J. 
Hunt. Each Number will be embellished with four coloured Portraits ; 
or it may be had in Parts, containing 12 Plates. The first part will be 
ready for publication on the Ist of March. As but few Copies are printed 
more than are subscribed for, the remaining Copies will be advanced to 
Three Shillings each Number, after the Day of Publication. Norwich : 
Printed by Bacon, Kinnebrook, and Co., and Published by J. Hunt, 
Engraver, near the Foundery Bridge. It may also be had at the 
Booksellers.” 
A prospectus issued with Part III (bound up in the British 
Ornithology in the Newton Library) shows that the book was 
published quarterly in Parts, ‘‘ embellished by twelve Coloured 
Portraits . . . Price Nine Shillings.” I have only seen the 
wrappers of Parts IT, XI, XII, XIII and XIV, but probably 
fifteen parts in all were published. If is remarkable that on 
all these wrappers, except those of Parts II and XIV, a space 
has been left for the price to be inserted by hand and that the 
price was 7s. 6d.; the wrapper of Part II is entitled ‘“‘Sub- 
scriber’s Copy” and priced 7s. 6d. in print, and only the 
