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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. vii + pp. 198, with 8 pi. 
Idem. New edit. 1864. 1 vol. 16mo. 
Bingley (William), 1774-1823 
Bingley was bom at Doncaster in 1774, and left an orphan 
at a very early age. In 1795 he was entered at St. Peter’s 
College, Cambridge, and took the degree of B.A. in 1799 and 
of M.A. in 1803. Whilst an undergraduate he travelled in 
Wales and published his observations in A Tour round North 
Wales. He travelled in the same district again in 1801, and 
in 1804 published his North Wales, delineated from Two 
Excursions. 
After being ordained he was for many years curate at 
Christchurch, Hampshire, but from 1816 was minister of 
Fitzroy Chapel, Charlotte Street, in which street he was 
resident when he died on March 11, 1823, and was buried in 
Bloomsbury Church. 
He was a prolific writer and on various subjects, one 
of his best known works being Memoirs of British Quadrupeds 
(1809), and another, Animal Biography (3 vols. 8vo, 1803-4), 
of which six editions were published. This latter work 
includes in Vol. II. accounts of a number of British (as well 
as foreign) birds. Another work of the same nature was 
Animated Nature (1814). 
1804. North Wales : | including its | Scenery, Antiquities, | Customs, | 
and some sketches of its | Natural History; | delineated from 
| two excursions through all the interesting | parts of that 
country ; | during the Summers of 1798 and 1801. | By the 
Rev. W. Bingley, A.M. | [etc. 2 lines] | Illustrated with a map, 
| frontispiece and music. | In two volumes, | Vol. I. [II.] | 
London : | Printed for [etc. 2 lines] | 1804. 
Collation — 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I., pp. xx + pp. 464, map and 
front. Yol. II., pp. xii + pp. 450 + 1 1. errata, front, and pi. of 
music. 
Includes account of the Puffin at pp. 309, 348-54 of Vol. I. 
Birchley (Sumner W.), viv. 
This writer is essentially an aviculturist, and his work is 
written from that standpoint, although he gives the de- 
