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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
73 
*1880. The Bird and Insect’s Post-Office. With Thirty-five illustrations. 
[Edited by Walter Bloomfield.] London (Griffith & Barren) : 
1880. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 4to, pp. 96, with 35 full-page and other 
woodcuts. 
First appeared in 1824 in his Literary Remains, London. 
2 vols. 12mo. 
Blyth (Edward), 1810-73 
Blyth’ s principal claim to a place in this work is his 
edition of White’s Sdborne , in which, says Seebohm, the 
notes are of equal merit with the text. He also, before 
leaving England, was Curator of the Ornithological Society 
of London, residing some time at Tooting, and at this period 
he contributed many valuable papers and notes to the 
journals of his day on British birds. 
He is, however, perhaps best known as Curator of the 
Calcutta Museum from 1842 to 1864, an institution which 
profited largely by his energy and ability. It was there 
that Blyth devoted himself to the study of the natural 
history of British India and its dependencies, the results of 
which have connected his name so intimately with the 
zoology of those countries. His Catalogue of the Birds of the 
Museum was also written during this period. Blyth also 
contributed to the Ibis , P.Z.S., Annals and Magazine of 
Natural History , and other journals. He returned to England 
in 1864, and died in London in December 1873, at the age of 
sixty-three. His Natural History of the Cranes , published 
by Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier in 1881 for the first time as a 
separate work, originally appeared in The Field for 1873. 
1833. [With R. Ball.] On a new British species of Cuckoo, Coccyzus 
americanus. (Rennie’s Field Naturalist, i. pp. 6-8.) 
Habits of the Bearded Tit. ( T.c . pp. 66-70.) 
On the Predaceous Habits of the Shrike. (T.c. pp. 77-9.) 
Remarks on Classification of Birds, particularly the British 
Warblers. (T.c. pp. 134-8.) 
On the Nightingale. (T.c. pp. 196-204.) 
On the British Tits. * (T.c. pp. 262-70.) 
On the genus Phoenicura and the Blue-breast. (T.c. pp. 290-91.) 
On the British Fruit-eating Warblers. (T.c. pp. 306-18.) 
