Turner^ 65 
publication appears to have been, a treatife 
on birds, under the following title : 
* ^ Avium prcecipiiarum quarum apud PHnt-^ 
tint et Arijlotelem mentio eft brevis et JuccinBa 
hifloria, ex optimis qiiibiifqiie fcriptoribus con^ 
texta. Scholio illujirata et aiiBa. AdjeBis 
nominibus Greeds ^ Germanicis, et Britannicis.'^ 
Colonias 1543. 8°. Not having feen this 
volume, I can only fay, that Turner is 
mentioned by his friend Gesner, in re«» 
Ipedful terms, as an ornithologifl:. Avium 
quidem nomina et naturas ante nos et pauci et 
hreviter attigeriint ex qui bus Gyb, Lo?2golius 
Germaniis^ et Gidielmus Turner Anglus 
viri doBijJimi preecipuam 7nere7it7.ir laudemT 
Gefn. Trcej\ ad Avium Hijf. Turner alfo 
contributed to enrich Gesner's mufeum 
(the firft colledion of that kind,) v^ith na-- 
tural curiofities, which he fent from 
land. To which I add, that Dr. Merret 
gives the following teftimony to the worth of 
Turner, in the Preface to his Pinax 
Conjidui in quibiifdam Turnerum nojlra-^ 
tern inter viros ftice atatis exercitatifjimum 
qui lihrum de avibus edidit ?nole parvum at 
judicio major em J* 
Vol, I, j; Prefixed 
