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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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[1862.] Our Feathered Families : The Birds of Song and their Congeners 
which are found in Britain. With upwards of fifty illustrations 
by Harvey, etc. London (Hogg) : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. 301, ill. (Pub. 3s. 6d.) 
[1862.] Our Feathered Families : The Birds of Prey. . . . An Anecdotal 
and Descriptive account of the Bapacious Birds of Britain. With 
a chapter on Ancient and Modern Hawking. . . . With about fifty 
illustrations by F. W. Keyl, etc. London (Hogg) : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. 320, ill. (Pub. 3s. 6d.) 
Idem. New edit. London (Warne) : 1868. 
[1863.] Our Feathered Families : Game and Water Birds. . . . An Anec- 
dotal and Descriptive account of the Feathered Game and Wild 
Fowl, . . . found in Great Britain. ... A chapter on Doves 
and Pigeons . . . with upwards of sixty illustrations by Harrison 
Weir, Harvey, etc. London (Hogg) : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. 315, ill. 
Idem. A reissue of the 3 vols. above. London : n.d. [1879]. 
[1862.] The Wild Flowers, Birds and Insects of the Months, Popularly and 
Poetically described. London (Hogg) : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. fcap 8vo, pp. i-vi + pp. 7-316, front, and cuts. 
(Pub. 3s. 6d.) Birds are dealt with under each month. 
Idem. New edit. 1868. 
Idem. Another edition, entitled “ Wonders and Beauties of 
the Year, containing poetical and popular descriptions of the 
Wild Flowers, Birds and Insects of the Months.” London: 1878. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. vi + 7-316, numerous ill. 
1874. [With H. B. Adams.] The Smaller British Birds, with descrip- 
tions of their Nests, Eggs, Habits, etc. By H. G. and H. B. 
Adams. Illustrated with coloured plates of Birds and Eggs. 
London : mdccclxxiv. 
Collation — 1 vol. roy. 8vo, pp. iv + pp. 252, with 32 col. pi. 
(16 of birds and 16 of eggs). 
Idem. Another edit. 1 vol. roy. 8vo. Ib. 1894. 
Adams (William Henry Davenport), 1829-91. 
See Bury (Rev. C. A.) 
Adamson (Charles Murray), ob. 1894 
Adamson, a well - known Northumbrian ornithologist, 
wrote a great deal for the Field in former years, and his 
contributions to that journal have been collected as recorded 
below. He is, however, best known for his various privately 
printed Scrap Boohs , with talented sketches of birds in 
