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Idem. New edit. 1861. (Uncoloured plates.) 
Idem. New edit. 1862. (Coloured and uncoloured copies.) 
Idem. New edit. 1866. (Coloured plates.) 
Idem. New edit. 1870. (Coloured plates.) (Pub. 3s. 6d.) 
Idem. Revised and re-edited. Cr. 8vo, pp. 245, with 12 pi. 
1898. And again 1904. 
Idem. [In Routledge’s World Library.] With Intro, by 
H. R. Haweis. Cr. 8vo, pp. 160. 1886. (Pub. 6d. and 3d.) 
1864. Stanton Grange : or At a Private Tutor’s. With Illustrations by 
F. W. Keyl, engraved by H. Harral. London : 1864. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. viii + pp. 304, with 8 pi. A 
boy’s story, including many observations on birds and their nests 
and eggs. 
1878. Provincial Names of British Animals. ( Zoologist , pp. 330-31.) 
1891. Forty Years in a Moorland Parish. London : 1891. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xi + pp. 457, with map. Ornithology 
at pp. 311-48. 
Aubrey (John), 1626-97 
John Aubrey, celebrated as an antiquary, was born at 
Easton Pierce, or Percy, in Kington parish, Wilts., on 
March 12, 1625-26 (according to the writer of his life in 
the Diet. Nat. Biog.), but others have given the date as 
November 3 of the first-mentioned year. His father, Richard 
Aubrey, was a landed gentleman. He was educated at 
first privately, afterwards at Blandford Grammar School, 
and in May 1642 entered Trinity College, Oxford. In 
1646 he became a student at the Middle Temple, but was 
never called to the Bar, and returned from time to 
time to Oxford, where he declared he enjoyed the greatest 
felicity of his life. In 1649 he brought to notice the extra- 
ordinary megalithic remains at Avebury, unheeded until 
then. In 1652, on his father’s death, he inherited the family 
estates in Wiltshire and elsewhere, but his careless and 
extravagant habits of living, together with numerous law- 
suits, eventually reduced him to poverty. He had in 1671 
received a patent empowering him to make antiquarian 
surveys under the Crown, and formed large topographical 
collections in Surrey and Wiltshire. His Natural History of 
Wiltshire , published by John Britten in 1847, contains but 
