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Butler (Arthur Gardiner), nat. 1844 
Dr. A. G. Butler was born at 6 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, June 
27, 1844, and educated at St. Paul’s School, later receiving 
a year’s tuition in drawing at the Art School, South Kensing- 
ton. He entered the British Museum and became Senior 
Assistant-Keeper in the Department of Zoology at the 
Natural History Museum, but has now retired. He is a 
Fellow of the Linnean and Zoological Societies, and a member 
of the B.O.XJ. Dr. Butler has paid special attention to oology 
and aviculture, and in addition to the undernoted works has 
written Foreign Finches in Captivity, with hand-coloured 
plates by Frohawk (4to, 1895-96), reissued in 1899 in roy. 
8vo with printed plates ; also four works on foreign cage- 
birds published by The Feathered World . 
[1886.] British Birds’ Eggs : a Handbook of British Oology. Illustrated 
by the Author in chromo-lithography. London (Janson) : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 219, with 28 pi. 
Published in numbers, 1885-86. 
[1896-99.] [Contributions to] British Birds, with their Nests and Eggs. 
In Six Volumes. Illustrated by F. W. Frohawk, M.B.O.U., F.E.S. 
Hull and London (Brumby & Clarke) : n.d. 
Collation — 6 vols. 4to, with 318 pi. of birds by Frohawk, 
and 24 col. pi. of eggs, containing 475 figs. Vol I. pp. iv-f-pp. 
208; II. pp. iv + pp. 192; III. pp. iv + pp. 175; IV. pp. iv-f- 
pp. 219 ; V. pp. iv + pp. 178 ; VI. pp. iv + pp. 249. (Pub. £6 : 6s.) 
Originally issued in numbers. 
Contents. — Vols. I. and II., Order Passeres by Butler ; III., 
Order Picarice by Butler ; Striges and Accipitres by Mathew ; 
Steganopodes by Forbes ; IV., Orders Herodiones and Odonto- 
glossce by Forbes ; Anseres by Cordeaux ; Columbce and Pterocletes 
by Tegetmeier ; V., Gallinoe, Fulicarioe , and Alectorides by Teget- 
meier ; Limicolce by Sclater ; VI., Gavice by Forbes, Pygopodes 
by Aplin, and Tubinares by Macpherson. 
1904. Birds’ Eggs of the British Isles. With 24 coloured plates from 
drawings by F. W. Frohawk. London (L. U. Gill) : 1904. 
Collation — 1 vol. 4to, pp. vii + pp. 105, with 24 pi. (475 figs.). 
(Pub. 21s. net.) 
Collated from the text of British Birds , 1896-99, with introduc- 
tion and a few additional notes, and all the col. pi. of eggs. 
Idem. Reissue. London (Brumby & Clarke) : n.d. [1910.] 
1907-8. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. Order Passeres , complete 
