136 BRITISH BIRDS. [ VoL. XI. 
Lombe’s collection,* can hardly have been drawn before 
1832.” The plate is not dated but it is unquestionably referred 
to in the letterpress of British Ornithology (Vol. III, p. 9), 
the title page of which is dated 1822; possibly Professor 
Newton’s note originated in a mistake, and Joseph Clarke’s 
statement that Hunt “ did not live to colour and publish it ” 
is certainly erroneous. The copy of the British Ornithology 
in the British Museum, which was only acquired from the 
widow of Mr. E. G. Grand, a grandson of Hunt, on 14th 
May, 1914, is remarkably rich in duplicate plates and may 
possibly have been John Hunt’s own copy. It is, however, 
incomplete, and is only mentioned here because it contains 
an unsigned water-colour sketch of a hybrid Black Grouse 
x Capercaillie, with a faded pencil note which appears to 
read: ‘‘ Foreign Spec. Hybrid the only specimen.” This 
sketch was never reproduced and is not referred to in the 
letterpress of the British Ornithology. 
The collation of the book has been one of considerable 
difficulty, as no two copies have been found to be bound 
alike. Moreover, the text occasionally refers to plates which 
I have no reason to believe were ever published ; an example 
of this is to be found in the footnote in Vol. III, p. 114, 
where a “ portrait ” of the Kittiwake in mature and immature 
plumage is referred to. Engelmann collates the book as 
containing 180 plates, as also does Wood (1832); Coues 
gives 189 plates, and Mullens, in his Bibliography of British 
Ornithology, gives 191 as a maximum. Henry Stevenson, 
in his copy of the British Ornithology (now in the library of 
Lord Lilford), has noted that this copy “‘is as complete as 
the work was left by the author, who never finished the 
letterpress, and contains the [8] unfinished plates . .. in 
the first stage, uncoloured, and now very scarce!!” M 
researches confirm this note and I give the collation of this 
particular copy with every confidence that it represents a 
complete collation of the book as published— 
Vol. I. Titie+pp. 183+-34 col. pls. 
Vol. II. Title+pp. 365+52 col. pls.+3 uncol. pls.+4 uncol. 
anatomical 
pls. 
Vol. III. Title+pp. 138+17 col. pls.+4 uncol. pls. 
Supplementary 77 col. pls+1 uncol. pl. 
180 col. pls.+8 uncol. pls.-+4 uncol. 
anatomical 
making 192 plates in all. pls., 
* This specimen of the Great Auk was bought from Benjamin 
Leadbeater by E. Lombe, and given by his daughter, Mrs. E, P. Clarke, 
to the Norwich Museum in 1873. 
