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1877. Lundy Island. A Monograph. London : 1877. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 177, with map. 
Reprinted with additions from Trans. Devon Assoc. Sci., Lit. 
and Art, 1871. 
Birds are at pp. 132-10 and 153-7. 
Chapman (Abel), nat. 1851 
Mr. Abel Chapman, whose name is well known to all 
sportsmen and ornithologists, was born at Sunderland, 
October 4 , 1851 , and educated at Rugby, 1865 - 69 . He 
was interested in natural history from boyhood, and began 
a series of systematic notebooks as early as 1865 . His home, 
then, and for twenty years later, was at Silksworth Hall, 
near Sunderland. During this period and ever since, Mr. 
Chapman has made the bird life of the Borders his especial 
study. For thirty years also he has followed the “ pro- 
fession 55 of punt-gunning, partly, he writes us, “ for the love 
of the sport, largely to learn the true facts about wildfowl — 
still largely misunderstood. 55 He has also during the whole 
period regularly visited Spain, Norway, and other “ near-by 55 
foreign lands in pursuit of sport and the study of natural 
history. His Wild Spain ( 1893 ) and Wild Norway ( 1897 ) 
are well-known books, and several similar works have 
emanated from his pen in more recent years. During the 
last fifteen years he has been able to travel further afield, 
making expeditions to South and East Africa, the Soudan, 
Newfoundland, etc., partly for big game, but largely for 
the study of birds. He has, however, never been a “ col- 
lector ” in the modern sense of the word, although he has 
preserved individual specimens of species that specially 
interested him. 
When at home he resides at his picturesque house of 
Houxty, near Wark, Northumberland. He is a Fellow of 
the Zoological Society, and M.B.O.U. 
1885. The Ornithology of Upper Coquetdale. ( Naturalist , pp. 150-51.) 
Bird Life on the Border Moors. (Field, Aug. 22 ; Sept. 26 ; 
Oct. 10 ; Oct. 24 ; Nov. 21 ; Dec. 12.) 
1886. Wood Pigeons. (Op. cit., April 17, pp. 476-7.) 
