SOME EARLY BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS. 225 



between the Rivers Tyne and Tweed ; / .... By John 

 Walhs, A.M. / London MDCCLXIX. 



2 Vols. 4to. (Birds, pp. 309 — 346, a considerable account.) 



1772. Rutty (John)— 



An / Essay / towards a / Natural History / of the / County 

 of Dubhn, / .... By John Rutty, M.D. / . . . . 1772. 



2 Vols. 8vo. (Birds, Vol. L, pp. 295—343, and IV. plates 

 of birds.) 



1789. Pilkington (James) — 



A / view / of / the / Present State / of / Derbyshire ;/.... 

 by James Pilkington. / . . . . London. / MDCCLXXXIX. 



2 Vols. 8vo. (Birds, Vol. L, pp. 480—496.) 



We will conclude our short list with the earliest of the local 

 ornithologies, i.e. : — 



1809. Tucker (Andrew)— 



Ornithologia Danmoniensis ; / or, / an history of the habits 

 and Economy / of / Devonshire Birds. / Embellished with 

 coloured plates, engraven from accurate and / Beautiful 

 Drawings from Nature : / . . . . By Andrew G. C. Tucker. / 

 .... London : / Printed for the Author, and published 

 by T. Cadell and / W. Davies, Strand. / 1809. 



1 Vol. 4to. 



" An ambitious work of which not even the whole of the 

 somewhat turgid Introduction was published, but the two 

 parts printed show the author to have been a physiologist, 

 anatomist and outdoor-observer far beyond most men of his 

 time " (c/. Newton's Dictionary of Birds ; introduction, 

 p. 45). 



