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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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Carter (B A ), viv. 
Mr. Carter, of Sutton Coldfield, states in His preface that 
“ as the result of long experience the author has come to the 
conclusion that there is a need for a guide to British Birds 
at once more simple and more ready than any yet pub- 
lished.” The measurements, colour, flight, movements, 
haunts, etc., of each species are arranged in parallel columns. 
[1912.] The Ready Guide to British Birds. With a Coloured Frontispiece 
and Diagrams by H. Goodchild, M.B.O.U. London (Sidgwick & 
Jackson, Ltd.) : n.d. 
Collation— 1 vol. post 8vo, col. front., pp. xiv ; diagram and 
pp. 120. 
Cassell’s Natural History. See under Anonymous 
(1854) and Sharpe (R. B.) 
Cathrall (William), yL 1828-68 
The ornithology in the undermentioned work consisting 
of a mere list 4 pp. in extent, this writer, a native of Oswestry, 
does not call for special mention. He also wrote a History 
of North Wales (2 vols. 1828), A Guide Through North Wales 
(1860), etc. 
1855. The History of Oswestry, with Notices of Botany, Geology, Statis- 
tics, Angling, and Biography, etc. Oswestry : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xvi + pp. 295, with pi. 
List of birds at pp. 205-8. 
Chaloner (J.). See King (D.) 
Chambers (J.). See Hunt (John) 
Chambers (William), 1800-83 
This well-known Edinburgh publisher cannot be con- 
sidered as an ornithologist, a four-page list of birds only being 
included in the undernoted work. There is no doubt, how- 
ever, that he had a love for nature and was fond of animals. 
He was born at Peebles on April 16, 1800, being two 
years the senior of his brother Robert, author of the anony- 
