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EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY, F.Z.S, M.B.O.U. 

 ASSISTED BY W. P. PYCRAFT, A.L.S, M.B.O.U. 



Contents of Number 11, Vol. II. April 1, 1909. 



Some Early British Ornithologists and their Works, by 

 W. H. Mullens, m.a., ll.m., m.b.o.u. VIII. — Thomas 

 Bewick(1753— 1828) and George Montagu (1751— 1815). Page 351 



Marking Birds : Notes on the Work at the Rossitten 



Station, by A. Landsborough Thomson . . . . 362 



On the More Important Additions to our Knowledge of 

 British Birds since 1899, by H. F. Witherby and N. F. 

 Ticehurst. Part XIX. — {continued from page 334) . . 368 



Notes : — Notes from Sussex (J. Walpole-Bond). Rare Birds 

 in Pembrokeshire (W. Maitland Congreve, Lieut. R.A.). 

 Bird Protection in Yorkshire (Eds.) The Birds of 

 Kent (Eds.) Black-throated Thrush in Kent (Thomas 

 Parkin). Curious Nesting Site of a Wood- Warbler (W. 

 S. Medlicott). Chaffinch Breeding in Winter (H. E. 

 Forrest). Alpine Swift in Pembrokeshire (Charles J. 

 P. Cave). Dowmy Woodpecker (Dewc^rocop/w pubescens) 

 in Gloucestershire (Wm. A. Smallcombe). White-tailed 

 Eagle in Essex (Christopher J. H. Tower). Osprey in 

 Essex (Christopher J. H. Tower). Pochard Nesting in 

 North Kent (J. Walpole-Bond). The Food of the Eider 

 (Eds.). Goosander in Bedfordshire (The Duchess of 

 Bedford). Red Grouse and Black Grouse Hybrids (J. G. 

 Millais and W. R. Ogilvie-Grant). The Bill of the Great 

 Northern Diver (The Duchess of Bedford). Fulmar 

 Petrel in Lancashire (H. W. Robinson). Little Ringed 

 Plover in North Uist 376 



SOME EARLY BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS 

 AND THEIR WORKS. 



BY 



W. H. MULLENS, m.a., ll.m., m.b.o.u. 

 VIII.— THOMAS BEWICK (1753—1828) and 

 GEORGE MONTAGU (1751—1815). 

 It is difficult to determine what position Thomas Bewick 

 holds among the principal British ornithologists ; it is 

 difficult indeed to determine whether he was, in the 

 strict sense of the word, an ornithologist at all. It was 

 by a series of entirely unforeseen events that Bewick 



