78 Boohs mi Vi.rii ihil imi at Cambridge. 



32. Phisiologus Theobaldi Episcopi de naturis duodecim 



aiiimalium. Coloniae ? : 1502. 



Only two of the twelve animals treated of in this celebrated and once 

 popular work are Birds — Aquila and Turtiir. 



33. C. S. Rafinesque. Caratteri di Alcuni Nuovi generi e 

 nuove specie di Animali e Piante della Sicilia con varie 

 osservazioni sopra i medesimi. Palermo : 1810. 4to. 



Copy bought at Temminck's sale for Sir W. »Tardine. 



34. ,, ,, Analyse de la Nature ou Tableau de 

 l'Univers et des Corps organisés. Païenne : 1815. 8vo. 



From Dr. J. E. Gray with autograph. 



35. John Ray. A Collection of English Words not 

 • generally used by John Ray. London : 1071. 



8vo. 



The introductory notice "To the Ecader" mentions several birds first 

 made known to the author by Sir Thomas Browne, beside which " A Cata- 

 logue of English Birds " is included, p. 81. 



36. ,, ,, Joannis Raii Synopsis Methodica Avium 

 et Piscimn ; opus posthumum, quod vivus recensuit et 

 perfecit ipse insignissimus Author Londini 



MDCCXIII. 8vO. 



This copy bears on the flyleaf " Wm. Kirby to his friend Bevett Shep- 

 pard, Pignus Amicitiae July 16th, 1818." To which Sheppard (joint 

 author with Whitear of the Catalogue of the Birds of Norfolk and 

 Suffolk — Trans. Linneau Society, xv. p. 1) has added "This book given 

 " to me by the best of men and the first Entomologist in Europe was 

 '• formerly the property of the celebrated Gilbert White of Selborne, 

 " whose handwriting may be seen at pases 7, 47. 43, 53. 58, 66, 80, 85, 86. 

 "88, 1.15, 137." 



Most likely the copy bought by White at Oxford, 21 October, 1753, 

 for three shillings and sixpence, as entered in his account book, according 

 to the extract printed by Bell in his edition of the ' Natural History of 

 Selborne,' vol. n. page 238. 



(John Ray born 1628, died 1706; Gilbert White born 1720, died 

 1793; William Kirby born 1759, died 1850; Bevett Sheppard born 1779. 

 died 1830.) 



37. Joachim Johann Nepomuk Spalowsky. Beytrag zur 

 Naturgeschichte der Vögel. Wien: 1790-1795. Six 

 vols. 4to. 



The fourth volume (1792) contains (page 18, Tab. 8) a description of 

 the " Psittacus leucocephalus martinicanus. Der Weisswierbel von 

 Martinika," the extinct species of Chrysotis peculiar to the island of Mar- 

 tinique, as stated by Labat in 1722 (Nouv. Voy. aux Isles de l'Amérique, 

 ir. page 157), of which no specimen is known to exist. The "Perroquet 



