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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[blathwayt 
Blaine (Delabere Pritchett),/. 1840-60 (?) 
This writer, who was a professor of Animal Medicine, 
published numerous veterinary works on horses and dogs, 
but has only a slight claim to a place here on account of the 
undernoted compilation. 
The compiler acknowledges his indebtedness to Mr. 
Fowell Buxton for the account of the capercaillie, and to 
the Hon. and Rev. Charles Bathurst for assistance with the 
history of hawking. 
1840. An | Encyclopaedia | of | Rural Sports ; | or, | a complete account, 
| ... of | Hunting, Shooting, Eishing, Racing, | [etc. 7 lines] 
| Illustrated by | six hundred | engravings on wood by R. 
Branston, | from drawings by Aiken, T. Landseer, | Dickes, etc. | 
London : | Longman [etc.]. 1840. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xv + pp. 1240, with 560 woodcuts. 
Part VI., Hawking, and Part VII., Shooting, deal with Birds, 
the latter part including descriptions of many species with 
woodcuts. 
Idem. New edit. London : 1852. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xiii + pp. 1246, with 576 woodcuts. 
Idem. New edits. 1858 and 1870. 
Blathwayt (Rev. Francis Linley), nat. 1875 
The Rev. F. L. Blathwayt, M.A., M.B.O.U., Rector of 
Doddington, Lincoln, was born July 11, 1875, at Ahmed- 
nuggar, India, and educated at Malvern College, and Hertford 
College, Oxford. He has written various papers or notes on 
ornithology in the natural history journals, and is included 
here on account of having written the bird section in the 
Victoria History of the County of Somersetshire. 
1898. Bird Notes from the Northern Cairngorms. (Zoologist, pp. 362-4.) 
1900. A Visit to Lundy. (Op. oil. pp. 375-80.) 
1903. Rambles among the Wild Birds. A Visit to the Earne Islands. 
(Avicult. Mag. (2) i. pp. 124-9.) 
On Highland Lochs. (Op. cit. (2) ii. pp. 30-36.) 
1904. Notes on the Birds found on the coast of Somerset. (Zoologist, 
pp. 81-95.) 
