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Bruce (George), viv. 
George Bruce, of St. Andrews, the writer of the under- 
mentioned work, which was commenced in 1855, is also the 
author of Destiny and Other Poems (1885 : First Canto, 1865) ; 
Reminiscences of St. Andrews Bay (1884) ; Poems and Songs , 
etc. 
1895. The Land Birds in and about St. Andrews. Dundee : 1895. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. viii + pp. 563. 
Bryce (James). See Gray (Robert) 
Bryden (Henry Anderson), viv . 
This well-known sporting writer was educated at the 
Rev. J. M. Brackenbury’s, Wimbledon, and at Cheltenham 
College. He attained celebrity as an athlete, and has in 
recent years resided and travelled much in South Africa in 
pursuit of sport and natural history. 
The only one of his numerous works that relates to 
British ornithology is the undernoted, portions of which 
originally appeared in various reviews and newspapers. 
1896. Sand Grouse. (Field, Nov. 7, p. 764.) 
1904. Nature and Sport in Britain. Illustrated. London (Richards) : 
1904. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xii + pp. 331, with 29 pi. 
Contains chapters on : Some forgotten Edible Birds : the 
Heron : Ruffs and Reeves : the Landrail : the Coming of the 
Woodcock : Quail, Bustards, etc. 
Buchan (Alexander), ob. 1730 
In explanation of this author’s work we make the following 
extract from the preface to the second edition of A Descrip- 
tion of St. Kilda, by his daughter, Jean Buchan : 
Mr. Martin’s book on St. Kilda “ being dear and out of 
date ; the Rev. Mr. Alexander Buchan, their late minister, and 
my deceased father, thought fit to write the following Descrip- 
