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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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Benson (Rev. Charles William), nat. 1836 
The Rev. C. W. Benson, of Balbnggan, Co. Dublin, is 
one of those who find ornithology an agreeable relaxation 
from work of a severer nature. He says in his Preface, 
“ I cannot flatter myself that anything original will be 
found in these pages. I have taken freely from all the 
sources at my command whatever I thought would tend to 
inspire my readers with the wish to observe and study for 
themselves/’ He acknowledges assistance from the Rev. 
Prof. Goodman, Rev. W. W. Flemyng, Miss Massy, and 
“ most of all . . . the late A. G. More.” Yet the author 
is an observer and lover of birds of long standing. 
His earliest printed communication we have noted is a 
note on the Sparrow-hawk and Missel Thrush in the Zoologist 
for 1876 (p. 5000). 
1886. Our Irish Song Birds. Dublin : 1886. 
Collation — 1 -vol. post 8vo, pp. xi + pp. 190, with 2 col. pi. 
Idem. 2nd edit. 1901. 
1897. The Icterine Warbler. (Irish Nat. vii. pp. 117-19.) 
1905. Notes on Birds observed at Balbriggan in 1903-4. (Zoologist, pp. 
174-8.) 
Bensusan (Samuel Levy), nat . 1872 
This well-known writer and journalist, whose interest 
in ornithology seems to be only incidental, was born 
September 29, 1872, and educated at the City of London 
School and Great Ealing School. He was editor of the 
Jewish World, 1897-98, and has written books on many 
subjects. 
His Wild- Life Stories deal principally with different 
familiar birds, and are written in a popular story-book 
fashion. He also wrote A Countryside Chronicle, 1907. 
1907. Wild-Life Stories, Stories from a Home County. With 8 
Illustrations by R. H. Buxton. London (Hutchinson) : 1907. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. xii + pp. 342, with 8 ill. 
Of the 22 chapters, all but 6 deal with birds. 
