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lished in the Linnean 'Transactions,' and is a most complete and 

 laborious accouut of the birds observed in both counties : of the 

 value of this list Mr. Stevenson observes that its ample details supply 

 many interesting particulars at a time when certain species, now no 

 longer resident, were gradually becoming scarce. 



1831. Catalogue of the Birds hitherto met in the Counties of 

 Northumberland and Durham, published in the 'Transactions of the 

 Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne,' by Prideaux John Selby. Of this Catalogue it is almost 

 impossible to speak too highty, and the accessory remarks are those 

 of a scholar and philosopher: it is a fact worthy of record that the 

 number of birds observed in these two northern counties exactly 

 corresponds with that observed by Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear in 

 the eastern counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, namely, two hundred and 

 seventeen, or exactly two-thirds of the entire number then ascertained 

 to inhabit or visit Britain. 



1845. A Catalogue of Birds observed in South-Eastern Durham 

 and North -Western Cleveland, by John Hogg, published in the 

 'Zoologist' for 1845: this paper, relating to a much less extensive 

 district than Mr. Selby's, contains only seven species less in number: 

 the district, as regards physical conditions, latitude, &c., is almost 

 identical. 



1845. In this year also appeared the Rev. Richard Lubbock's 

 Fauna of Norfolk, a work which combines scrupulous accuracy with 

 an elegant and pleasing style: it has ever been regarded as em- 

 phatically the authority on the birds inhabiting the Broad District of 

 Norfolk. 



1845. Notes on the Birds of the Isle of Wight, by the Rev. 

 Charles A. Bury. This is a paper of great value, and not obnoxious 

 to any objection on the score of vagueness and geographical circum- 

 scription : nothing can be more satisfactory than the limits of an 

 island, — they are open to no question, — and Mr. Bury has evidently 

 given the subject his earnest attention, resulting in one of the best 

 local lists ever published. 



1846. In this year, too, M. Julian Deby published, in the ' Zoolo- 

 gist,' his Birds of Belgium, a paper which, with three exceptions, 

 relates to birds of Britain, and therefore becomes exceedingly valuable 

 to British ornithologists, as showing the peculiar habits and characters 

 of our birds wheu on a foreign soil. 



1846. An Account of the Birds found in Norfolk, with Notices of 



