2 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF [ADAMS 
Feathered Families perhaps the most meritorious and 
esteemed. 
1851. [Edited by.] Favourite Song Birds ; containing a popular descrip- 
tion of the Feathered Songsters of Britain ; with an account of 
their Habits, Haunts, and Characteristic Traits. Interspersed 
with choice passages from the poets and quotations from eminent 
naturalists. Edited by H. G. Adams, author of “ Flowers : 
their Moral Language and Poetry,” “ A Story of the Seasons,” 
etc. etc. With twelve coloured illustrations on stone by Edward 
Gilks. London : 1851. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xii + pp. 196, with 12 col. pi. 
Idem. 2nd edit, (or reissue). 1855. 
Idem. 3rd edit. 1871. 
Idem. New edit., with 8 col. pi. 1887. 
1854. Nests and Eggs of Familiar British Birds, described and illustrated 
. . . by H. G. Adams, . . . with eight coloured plates of Eggs, 
Containing forty-eight different species. London . . . mdcccliv.. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. iv + pp. 78 + p. i un., with 
8 col. pi. 
1857. Nests and Eggs . . . Second series (of above). With eight coloured 
plates of Eggs, Containing thirty-eight different species. London : 
MDCCCLVII. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xvi + pp. 67 + p. 1 un., with 
8 col. pi. 
The above form the original issue, afterwards united in 1 vol. 
Idem. Beissue of orig. series 1854-57, in 1 vol. cr. 8vo, with 
16 col. pi. London : 1871. 
Another issue of above. Col. pi. London (Groombridge) : 
N.D. 
Note. — There is said (cf. English Catalogue of Books) to be 
an issue of 1861, but this we have not seen. 
*1853. [Edited by.] Cage and Chamber-Birds. Translated from the 
German of J. M. Bechstein, M.D. With considerable additions 
on Structure, Migration and Economy, compiled from various 
sources by H. G. Adams. Incorporating the whole of Sweet’s 
British Warblers ; with numerous illustrations. London (Bohn) : 
MDCCCLIII. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xvi + pp. 500, with 31 col. pi. 
and 12 figs. 
Idem. Also issued uncoloured. 
Idem. Other issues (not differing). 1854 and 1856. 
Note. — In the latter year he also executed a translation of 
Bechstein’s work, without additions, for Ward Lock. 
*1854. Cage and Singing Birds. London : 1854. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. viii + pp. 148, with 8 pi. (22 figs.). 
