AUTHORS QUOTED OR REFERRED TO. Ixxix 



Henry D'Orville), has furnished some information not hitherto pub- 

 lished. Col. Montagu's Collection of British birds is still preserved 

 in the Xatm-al History Museum, S. Kensington. 



G. F. M.— Gervase F. ^Eathew, Fleet Paymaster, R.N., F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 F.E.S., Lee House, Dovercourt, Essex. 



Notes on Devonshire birds in the ' Naturalist,' 1866, and in the 

 ' Zoologist.' 



H. A. M. — Eev. Hugh A. Macphersox, M.A,, Carlisle. 



Associated with Mi-. "W. E. H, Pidsley in ' Birds of Devonshire,' 

 and author of numerous notes on the birds of Devonshire in the 

 ' Zoologist.' 



M. A. M.— Kev. Murray A. Mathew, M.A., F.L.S., M.B.O.XJ., Buckland 

 Dinham, Frome, Somerset ; formerly of llaleigh, Barnstaple, Devon. 

 Numerous notes on North Devon birds in the ' Zoologist ' from 

 1856. 



E. M.— Edward Moore, M.D., F.L.S., of Plymouth. D. 1858. 



Author of the first systematic Catalogue of Devonshire Bii'ds. This 

 paper, entitled " On the Oruitholog}' of the South of Devon," was 

 published in the ' Transactions of the Plymouth Institution ' for 

 1830, and formed the foundation for the lists compiled by all 

 subsequent Avriters on Devonshire ornithology. In 1837 he puln 

 lished an improved Catalogue in Loudon's ' Magazine of Natural 

 History,' new series, vol. i., and in 1848 a List of Dartmoor birds in 

 the Kev. Samuel Howe's ' Perambulation of Dartmoor.' He possessed 

 a collection of birds, which was sold and dispersed at his death. 



A. N.— Professor Ali-red Nkwtox, M.A., F.ll.S., F.Z.S., F.L.S., Magdalene 

 College, Cambridge. 



This eminent ornithologist publisbcd some notes on Birds observed 

 around Torbay in the 'Zoologist' for 1850 and 1851, and edited 

 Vols. i. and ii. of llie 4th edition of YarrcU's ' British Birds,' in which 

 are many allusions to Dcvousliire birds. 



H. N. — Hexry Nicuoli.s, lloseland, Kingsbridge. 



He commenced the pursuit of ornithology in 1833, and contributed 

 notes on the rarer birds occurring in his neighbourhood to the 

 'Zoologist' from 1847 to 18G5, and a List of the Birds to 'Kings- 

 bridge and its Surroundings,' by Miss S, P. Fox (1st ed. 1864; :2nd 

 cd. 1874, Appendix C). Mr. H. Nicholls lias kindly furnished W. S. 

 M. D'U. with MS. notes, which have been IVccjuontly (juotcd from. 



