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VOL. XI.] JOHN HUNT. 155 
STATE OF THE COUNTRY, / PRICES OF PROVISIONS, HOUSE 
RENT, &C. AND / MANY OTHER INTERESTING PARTICULARS, / 
WORTHY OF PERUSAL./ 1835.; PRINTED BY JOHN JUDD 
SHARPE, ST. GEORGE’S CotEeGcaTER, / Norwicu./ Prick Two- 
PENCE./ The Letter is dated ‘“‘ New York, November 25, 
1835,” but 1835 must be a misprint for 1834. In my copy, 
of the “ second edition ’’ of the Letter, the figure 5 has been 
erased and the figure 4 has been printed in its place. 
J. Quinton, in his Bibliotheca Norfolciensis, citing the third 
edition of the Letter, gives the entry as follows: ‘‘ Hunt, 
John, Copy of a letter dated New York, Nov. 25, 1834, just 
received from Mr. John Hunt, etc., 3rd ed., pp. 12, Norwich : 
J. J. Sharpe, 1835.’ It is also most unlikely that a letter 
from New York, written on 25th November, 1835, could 
arrive in Norwich and that three editions of it could be 
printed in 1835. 
I am not aware of any other books written by John Hunt, 
who, at one time or another, appears to have been stationer, 
schoolmaster, engraver, taxidermist, bird-collector, ornitho- 
logist and emigrant, but who will ever be famous as the 
author of British Ornithology, which is now one of the scarcest 
books on the subject. 
I cannot conclude these notes on John Hunt and his 
works without thanking the owners, or custodians, of the 
various copies of Hunt’s British Ornithology for the cordial 
assistance they have rendered in allowing me to collate 
their precious copies, and I should like to repeat my thanks 
to Mr. George A. Stephen, whose intimate knowledge of 
Norwich and its worthies has proved invaluable to me. 
