AUTHOKS QUOTED OR REFERRED TO. Ixxxi 



C. p. — Charles Prideaitx, of Hatch Arundel, near Kingsbridge. D. 1869. 

 This gentleman was an indiscriminate collector of birds, purchasing 

 an)' that struck his fancy from dealers. Some that he considered 

 varieties he gave away to his friends, and some were sold, but the 

 greater portion of his collection was given to the town of Kingsbridge 

 and forms the Town Museum. He contributed a i'ew notices of rare 

 birds to the first series of the ' Zoologist ; ' but little reliance can be 

 placed on his statements, as he obtained his information second- 

 hand. 



G. P. E. P.— G. P. E. Ptjlman. 



Author of ' Book of the Axe ' (1st ed., 1854 ; 2nd ed., 1875). 

 This work contains some notices of birds. He also contributed notes 

 to the ' Naturalist,' 1851-55. 



J. J. E.^ — J. J. Eeading, M.E.S., formerly of Plymouth. 



A zealous and successful collector, but principally known as an 

 entomologist. Some notes on Plymouth birds in the ' Zoologist ' for 

 18ti3 are from his pen. 



M. S. C. E. — Eev. Maecds S. C. Eickaeds, M.A.., Twigworth Vicarage, 

 Gloucestershire. 



A most successful collector. Contributed numerous notices of rare 

 North Devon birds to the ' Zoologist,' and to Eev. M. A. Matbew in 

 lift. 



E. H. E. — Edwaed Heakle Eodd, of Penzance, Cornwall. D. 1880. 



Author of ' Eirds of Cornwall,' edited by J. E. Harting, published 

 in 1880, and notes in the ' Zoologist,' 1854. 



H. E. E. — Herbert Evelyn Eawson, The Vicarage, Bromley Common, 

 Kent. 



Notice of Alpine Swift near Ilfracombe in ' Zoologist ' for 1880. 



F. W. L. E. — Eeancis Wjlliam Locke Eoss, of Broadway House, Topsham. 



B. ITUa ; i). 18U0. 



A sportsman, collector of birds, and an artist. His manuscript 

 ' Journals of Occurrences in Natural History,' 18150-44, and ' British 

 Laridu;,' arc in the library of the A. M. M., but are not of much 

 scientific importance. His collection of mounted birds, principally 

 from the estuary of the Exe, was i)rcsented by his executors to the 

 Exeter Museum. Mr. Eoss published a few notes in the earlier 

 volumes of tlio ' Zoologist,' and recorded the occurrence of the (Jreat 

 Black-headed Gull in Ann. tt Mag. Nat. Hist., Dee. 1850, p. 407. 



