224 BRITISH BIRDS. 



CoUation : pp. 20 un. + pp. 4. + PP 2 un. + pp. 196. 

 (Book II.) pp. 99. (Book III.) pp. 112 -\- pp. 33 Index. Portrait, 

 Map & XXIV. Plates. (Numerous mistakes in pagination.) 



Birds are treated of, pp. 157 — 164, Book I., but Leigh's 

 ornithological observations are useless and trivial, though 

 he could not well complain of any lack of material, since he 

 informs us on p. 157 that " These Counties afford us great 

 variety of Birds, and in some places, even, clog the Inhabitants 

 with their Plenty." 



County Natural Histories now began to appear at frequent 

 intervals, and contained more or less useful notices of the local 

 birds, but it is here only possible to mention some of the rarer 

 or more important of them in their chronological order : — 



1709. Robinson (Thomas)— 



An / Essay / towards a / Natural History / of / Westmoreland 

 / and / Cumberland. / . . . . By Tho. Robinson, Rector of / 

 Ousby in Cumberland. / London .... 1709. 



1 Vol. 8vo. (Contains some worthless remarks on birds, 

 pp. 64 — 68, and pp. 94 — 98 of the " Moral Conclusions," which 

 form the latter part of the work.) 



1712. Morton (John)— 



The / Natural History / of / Northamptonshire :/.... by 

 John Morton, M.A., / Rector of Oxenden in the same County 

 . . . . / London .... MDCCXII. 



1 Vol. folio. (Birds, pp. 423—438.) 



1758. Borlase (Wilham)— 



The / Natural History / of / Cornwall. / .... By Wilham 

 Borlase, A.M.F.R.S. / Rector of Ludgvan, and Author of the 

 Antiquities of Cornwall. / Oxford .... MDCCLVIIL 



1 Vol. foho. (Birds, pp. 242 — 248, the information being 

 chiefly derived from Carew's Survey of Cornwall, 1602.) 



1769. Walhs (John)— 



The / Natural History / and / Antiquities / of Northumber- 

 land : / and so much of the County of / Durham / as hes 



