Ixxxii AUTHORS QUOTED OR REFERRED TO. 



J. B. R. — J. Brooking Rowe, F.L.S., Castle Barbican, Plympton, S. Devon. 



Author of a Catalogue of the !\[aramals, Birds, Reptiles, and 

 Amphibians indigenous to, or observed in, the County of Devon, pub- 

 lished in Trans. Plymouth Institution, 18G2-3. 



A copy of this list annotated by the author was kindly placed in 

 the hands of the Authors by Mr. J. E. Harting. Mr. Rowe possesses 

 a collection of birds principally obtained in the neighbourhood of 

 Plymouth. 



R. S. — Rali'D .Sanders, Banker, Port View, Hcavitree, Exeter. D. 1888. 

 This gentleman had a great taste for ornithology, and many birds 

 collected by him are in the A. M. M., of which Institution he Avas one 

 of the originators and Hon. Treasurer for many years. 



W. B. 8.— William Bower Scott, of Chudleigh. B. 1807 ; D. 1881. 



By profession a Solicitor. An enthusiastic fisherman and ornitho- 

 logist. He possessed a collection of British Birds formed by L. 

 Chaffey, a gamekeeper at Doddington Hall, Kent. The greater 

 portion of this collection he left to the A. M. M. Mr. Scott was a 

 good observer of birds, and fre(iucntly furnished W. S. M. D'U. with 

 information. 



W. R. S.— William Roijsox Scoxt, Ph.D. B. 1811 ; D. 1877. 



Head master of the West of England Institution for the Deaf and 

 Dumb, Exeter, for thirty-six years (1841-77). Contributed notes 

 on " Rare Birds near Exeter," and " On some of the Rarer Birds of 

 Devonshire," to the 'Zoologist ' for 1815 and 1849, and read a paper 

 " On the Ring-Ouzel " to the British Association at the Bath Meeting 

 in 18G4, and one on a " Hybrid variety of Perdix cinerea " at the 

 Exeter Meeting in 1809. Dr. Scott formed a small collection of 

 birds mounted by himself, which he presented to the A. M. M., of 

 which Institution he was one of the originators. 



C. S. — Cfxil Smith, M.A., M.B.O.U., F.Z.S., of Lydeard House, Bishop's 

 Lydeard, near Taunton. B. 1826; D. 1890. 



An excellent ornithologist, and author of ' Birds of Somerset,' 

 published in 18G9. He also contributed manj- notes on birds to the 

 ' Zoologist' between 18G3 and 1889, many of which relate to Devon- 

 shire species. Mr. Smith frequently paid visits to Exmouth for the 

 sake of shooting on the Exe estuary and the south coast of the 

 county, and assisted W. S. M. D'Urban with numerous notes on the 

 birds he observed there. 



