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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[BECKWITH 
Bayne (A D ),fl. 1858-73 
The work below -mentioned is apparently a mere com- 
pilation, the plates being copies of old prints from the 
Gentleman’ s Magazine , etc. Yol. I. contains about twenty- 
four pages on the “ Natural History of Eastern England,” 
but it is a very superficial sketch. The author also 
published a History of the Industry and Trade of Norwich 
and Norfolk (2nd edit. 1858). 
[1873 ?] Royal Illustrated History of Eastern England, Civil, Military, 
Political and Ecclesiastical, . . . including a Survey of the Eastern 
Counties : Physical features, Geology, and Natural History of 
Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, etc. Great Yar- 
mouth : [n.d.]. 
Collation — 2 vols. roy. 8vo. Yol I., pp. viii + pp. 608, with 
13 pi. ; Vol II., pp. xiv + pp. 624, with 13 pi. Birds of Norfolk 
and Suffolk, Vol. I., pp. 26-9. 
Beavan (Arthur Henry), viv. 
This author’s Birds I have Known contains two chapters 
on “ London Birds,” and others on “ Cornish Birds,” 
“ Foreign Birds,” etc. He has also written Animals I have 
Known and Fishes I have Known , in addition to a number 
of works in general literature. 
*1905. Birds I have Known. Illustrated. London (Unwin) : 1905. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. 256, front. (Pub. 5s.) 
Idem. Another edit., cr. 8vo, lb. : 1907. (Pub. 2s.) 
Beckwith (William Edmund), 1844-92 
William Beckwith, an energetic and well-known Shropshire 
ornithologist, was born at Eaton Constantine, December 17, 
1844, and educated at Bridgnorth and King’s College, London. 
He resided during most of his life at Eaton Constantine, 
of which place, Mr. Forrest informs us (in his Birds of Shrop- 
shire , 1899), his father was rector. He contributed articles 
on Shropshire Birds to the Field , and also the Trans . of 
the Shropshire Archaeological Society , and Mr. Forrest 
states that the Notes on Shropshire Birds in the latter 
