IXXX AUTHOES QUOTED OR REFERRED TO. 



Col. Montagu employed a person named Gibljs to stuff birds for him ; 

 and after him a legal gentleman named ^Nicholas Luscombe took up 

 the pursuit and stuffed some specimens for Montagu. He was 

 followed by his son, Nicholas Luscombe, Jnr. This last gentleman 

 imparted the art to Mr. H. Nicholls when he was about sixteen years 

 old, and he followed it as a business until 18G5, when he gave it 

 up to his brother, Mr. E. P. Nicholls, who furnished the authors with 

 the above information. The father of the Messrs. Nicholls, an 

 excellent sportsman, died in 187(5. 



Tl. P. N. — PtiCHAED Perrott Nicholls, Fore Street, Kingsbridge. 



A noted bird-stuffer and an excellent ornithologist. Has been 

 much in America, and has a very extensive collection of North- 

 American birds. He succeeded his brother in business as a taxi- 

 dermist in ISGo, and has contributed many notices of rare birds 

 occurring near Kingsbridge to the ' Zoologist ' since that date. He 

 furnished the authors with much valuable information both v. v. and 

 in litt., and in the form of MS. notes. 



E. P. — Edward Parfitt, Librarian, Devon and Exeter Institution, Exeter. 



A very industrious naturalist, and compiler of Catalogues of 



Mammals, Birds, Fishes, Invertebrate Animals, and Plants of Devon, 



which he has published in the Trans. Devon. Association. His List 



of the Birds is in vol. viii. of that periodical. 



W. E. H. P.— W. E. H. PiDSLET, of Exeter. 



Author of ' The Birds of Devonshire,' in conjunction with the 

 Eev. Hugh Macpherson. 



R. P. — Rev. Richard Polwhele, Vicar of Manaccan, Cornwall. 



A native of Cornwall; born at Truro in 1760, and died there in 

 1838. He was curate of Littleham-cum-Exmouth at one time, and 

 also of Kenton, where he resided for ten years and where he wrote 

 most of his ' History of Devonshire.' He can hardly be considered an 

 ornithologist, and the chapter he devotes to Devonshire birds in his 

 History of the County, published in 1797 (vol. i. chap. vi. pp. 101- 

 111, published after the second volume), was mainly compiled from 

 information supplied by his friends, Mr. (afterwards Sir William) 

 Elford of Bickham, Mr. Perriug of Rockford, and Dr. Tripe of Ash- 

 burton. 



T. L. P.— The Hon. Thomas L. Powrs (now Lord Lilford, F.Z.S., F.L.S., 

 &c., and President B.O.U.). 



Notes on Devonshire birds in the ' Zoologist ' (first series). Has 

 afforded much valuable information to the Rev. M. A. Mathew. 



