44 BRISTOL ZOOLOGY OF THE PAST FIFTY YEARS. 
On that most fascinating subject, the habits and instincts of 
Birds and Animals, reference must be made to Prof. Lloyd 
Morgan's work on "The Infancy of Birds," as well as to Mr. 
Playne's lecture on "Summer Visitors to the Neighbourhood of 
Bristol " (1899), and some charming bits of Life Histories contri- 
buted by Mr. Percy Leonard, "Observations on Mice," and "A 
Pair of Blackbirds " (1891), and also Mr. Claude Druitt's studies of 
" Woodpeckers and Owls " (1894). 
In 1898 an Ornithological Section was formed to draw up a list 
of the "Birds of the District," published in the Proceedings. 
From this list (197 species) all the species that might not reason- 
ably be expected to occur any season, were rigorously excluded. 
Turning to Mammalia, in 1909 a list of these by Dr. C. K. Rudge 
and myself appeared in the Proceedings, and also in the Local 
Handbook prepared for the British Association in 1898, Prof. 
Lloyd Morgan and the present writer gave an annotated list of 33 
Species. 
Many rare local birds and animals have been exhibited at the 
meetings, the most notable birds being 3 Bee-eaters obtained by 
Mr. George Harding at Stapleton, in 1869 (now in Bristol 
Museum), " Pallas' Sand Grouse," in 1888, and the " Pomarine 
Skua" (1879-80). The most remarkable mammals recorded were 
the Rorqual stranded on the Severn shore which was described and 
figured in Vol. IV. of the Society's Proceedings, and the " White- 
winged Bat " exhibited in 1901. 
Outside the Society, but dealing with the local fauna, there have 
been many interesting publications : as, for instance, Cecil Smith's 
Birds of Somerset, in 1869, and the Rev. Murray A. Matthew's 
revised list of Somerset Birds in the Proceedings of the Somerset 
Archaeological and Natural History Society for 1893. In 1903 
appeared the "Victoria History of Somerset," in which Colonel 
Linley Blathwayt gave a list of 258 species of Birds. The article 
" Mammals " in the same volume was written by myself. 
In 1892 appeared the " Fauna and Flora of Gloucestershire," by 
Messrs. Witchell and Strugnell, an ambitious fragment of a local 
fauna, which, however contains some useful notes. Another 
charming little book containing many local notes on the fauna, is 
Theodore Compton's Winscombe Sketches, published in 1882. 
Locally, nothing in matters zoological is more notable than the 
wonderful development of the Bristol Museum : besides many local 
specimens of great interest it has a small collection of local birds, 
presented by William Henderson, Esq., in the first bay of the large 
room. 
Much has been done in this past half-century, but very much 
more remains to be done, and we may hope that with the 
immense increase of opportunity, the next half-century will pro- 
duce a vast increase in the number of the workers. They have 
been so few in the past ! 
