XXXVlii HISTORY OF MANX ORNITHOLOGY 
Governor,’ and he also introduces Falcons and ‘ Merlyns.’ 
His treatise has a quaint sketch of the Sugar Loaf with its 
swarming sea-birds. Blundell, contemporary with Chaloner, 
in his lengthy History touches very slightly on the fauna. 
Willoughby describes the Puffin at length; and in Bishop 
Gibson’s additions to the 1695 edition of Camden, the 
account of them is much extended, but various other zoolo- 
gical statements in it are incorrect or improbable. Cox’s 
Magna Britannia (1720) repeats pretty closely ; but in the 
excellent History of Bishop Wilson,’ inserted in Gibson’s 
second edition of Camden (1722), various interesting parti- 
culars are added, and mistakes of the former editions recti- 
fied. We are told of the absence here of the Woodpecker, 
Jay, and ‘Maup, of an ‘airy’ of Eagles, and of the recent 
introduction of the Magpie. 
The Journal of Richard Townley (1791), who visited 
Man in 1789, contains much accurate personal observation, 
and is, of the old accounts, much the most interesting from 
a naturalist’s point of view. He notices the abundance of 
Thrushes, the scarcity of Rooks, the presence of the Rock 
Dove, ‘ Crane’ (z.e. Heron), Puffin, Hooded Crow, etc. 
Little can be added till the time of Edward Forbes, by 
birth a Manxman, who contributed to Quiggin’s Guide (1848) 
an account of Manx zoology—very short so far as birds are 
concerned—and which in subsequent editions seems to have 
been altered (for the worse) by some person unknown. A 
museum, which contained a good many Manx specimens, 
1 James Chaloner, first connected with the administration of Manx affairs in 
1652, and Governor, 1658-60, was born in London in 1603, the son of a Yorkshire 
knight. He had sat as a judge of Charles I., but withdrawn from the final stages 
of the trial. After some stormy experiences during the unsettled interval between 
Cromwell’s death and the Restoration, he joined in the insular celebration of 
that event, which he survived by a few months only. 
2 The well-known Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1698 to 
1755, famous for his piety, his severe enforcement of Church discipline, and his 
long struggle with the civil power. He was born in Cheshire in 1663, and died 
in his diocese in 1755 ; his tomb is at Kirk Michael. 
