100 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. xv 



called the Music House near the west end of St. Paul's 

 Church, London. Printed by Thomas Rat cliff, for the 

 Author, A.D. 1665." 



I vol. i2mo, London. 

 (This was the second edition of the work, the first with a 

 similar title having no date.) 



6. Willughby, 1678. 



" The Ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in 



the County of Warwick, Esq By John Ray, 



Fellow of the Royal Society .... London .... 1678." 

 I vol. folio, London. 



7. Holme, 1688. 



" The Academy of Armoury or Store-house of Armoury 

 and Blazon, containing the general variety of created 

 beings and how borne in Coats of Arms both Foreign and 

 Domestic by Randle Holme of the City of Chester 

 Gentleman, Sewer in Extra-ordinary to his late Majesty 

 King Charles the Second, Chester 1688." 

 I vol. folio, Chester. 



8. Sellers. 



" The Enghsh Pilot for the Northern and Southern Naviga- 

 tion London 1728." Seventeenth Edition. 



I vol. folio, London. 

 (Note. — We have not seen this work and give the title 

 from Lowndes and the quotation produced below on the 

 authority of Miller Christy cf. Zoologist 1894.) 

 <). Edwards, 1750. 



" A Natural History of Birds .... By George Edwards, 

 Library-Keeper to the Royal College of Physicians, 

 London .... MDCCL." 



Vol. I.-Vol. IV. 4to, London. 



The first so-called " scientific " reference to the Great Auk 

 as distinguished from those contained in early voyages and 

 travels is that made by Clusius. On page 10 1 of his above- 

 mentioned work, under the heading " Anser Magellanicus," 

 Clusius gives the figure (here reproduced) and description 

 of the South American Penguin. The translation of the 

 passage is as follows : — ■ 



"This is a sea fowl of the Goose kind, though unHke it in 

 its bill. It lives in the sea, is very fat, and of the bigness of a 

 large goose, for the old ones of this kind are found to weigh 

 thirteen, fourteen, yea and sometimes sixteen pounds, the 

 younger eight, ten and twelve. The upper side of the body 



