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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OP 
[BLACKWALL 
His publications largely consisted of papers in the journals 
of various learned societies, about fifteen of them relating 
to ornithology. They were collected in a volume entitled 
Researches into Zoology in 1834, and again (although not up 
to date) in 1873. He died May 11, 1881. 
1823. Tables | of | the Various Species | of | Periodical Birds | observed 
in the | Neighbourhood of Manchester : | With a few remarks | 
tending to Establish the opinion that the | Periodical Birds 
Migrate. | By Mr. John Blackwall. | Printed for the Author, | 
By the Executors of S. Russell, Deansgate. | 1823. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 30 and folding table of “ Remarkable 
Periodical Birds.” 
1824. Observations | on the | Notes of Birds, | including | An Inquiry | 
whether or not they are Instinctive. | By Mr. John Blackwall. | 
Printed for the Author, | By the Executors of S. Russell, Deans- 
gate. | 1824. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 31. 
Observations | Conducive | towards a more complete History | 
of | The Cuckoo | by Mr. John Blackwall. | Printed for the 
Author, | By the Executors of S. Russell, Deansgate. | 1824. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 36, with 1 col. pi. 
The above were privately printed for the author from the 
Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. 
1829. Manchester Museum. [Notice of rarer British Birds in the Collec- 
tion.] (Loudon’s Mag. N.H. ii. p. 273.) 
Manners and Economy of the Pied Flycatcher. ( T.c . pp. 331-2.) 
Extracts from a Zoological Journal kept at Crumpsall Hall, near 
Manchester. (Zool. Jour. v. pp. 10-14.) 
1833. On the Instincts of Birds. (Edin. New Phil. Jour. xiv. pp. 
241-61.) (Also in Mem. Lit. and Phil. Soc. Manchester, II. vol. 5.) 
1844-48. Periodical Birds observed in the years 1842-3 to 1846-7 near 
Llanrwst, Denbighshire. (Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 1843, 
p. 69 ; 1844, p. 61 ; 1845, p. 63 ; 1847, p. 75.) 
1849. Ornithological Notes. (Ann. Mag. N.H. ser. 2, iv. pp. 18-25.) 
*1873. Researches in Zoology, illustrative of the Structure, habits and 
economy of Animals. Second edition. London (Van Voorst) : 
1873. 
This is an altered reissue of a collection published in 1834. 
Not seen. It comprises : Migration, etc. of Birds (1823) ; Notes 
of Birds (1824) ; On the Cuckoo (1824) ; Instincts of Birds (1823) ; 
as well as observations on the Pied Flycatcher, Bewick’s Swan, etc . 
etc., and on foreign birds, spiders, etc. 
