A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
Note. — The full titles of journals, etc., quoted in the bibliographies, as well as 
the sizes (here omitted) of such, can be readily ascertained by a reference to the 
“ List of Periodicals Indexed ” to be issued in due course, together with a full list of 
abbreviations used in the text, and a list of bibliographical and other works of 
reference cited. 
Works published under general titles, and containing also foreign birds, but here 
included because containing accounts of British birds, are distinguished by an asterisk *. 
Adams (Henry B.). See Adams (H. G.) 
Adams (Henry Gardiner), jl. 1840-74 
Of tills author’s life we have been able to learn com- 
paratively little, and what few facts have been gleaned are 
due to Mr. George Neves, of the Chatham , Rochester and 
Gillingham News. 
H. G. Adams, we are informed, belonged to Rochester, 
Kent, residing in Nag’s Head Lane, and being Dispenser 
to the Rochester, Chatham and Strood Dispensary, while 
he devoted his leisure to nature studies and literary work. 
He wrote several works of local interest, the earliest pub- 
lished one we have examined being The Kentish Coronal 
(London : 1841). 
Adams was a voluminous writer, and produced popular 
natural history works of a minor character, with coloured 
illustrations, on butterflies, humming-birds and shells, as 
well as compiling cyclopaedias of female biography and 
poetical quotations which attained some measure of popu- 
larity. Of his books on birds, the Smaller British Birds , 
which appears to have been prepared for the press by Henry 
B. Adams, is the best known, and the three volumes of 
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