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specimens. He was born on July 1, 1808 (according to 
Mr. Miller Christy), at Epping, where his father, Benjamin 
Doubleday, had long carried on a general grocery, hardware 
and provision business. The management of this business 
came to the elder brother, Henry, on his father’s death in 
1848, and tied him very much to home; and the collecting 
expeditions he had been wont to make through the Eastern 
Counties prior to that date were, as a consequence, put a 
stop to. 
His earliest published communication is said to have 
been a note in Jardine’s Magazine of Zoology. He was a 
friend of Edw. Newman, and contributed regularly to the 
Entomologist and Zoologist for nearly forty years, as well as 
the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London. His 
Nomenclature of British Birds was first published in 1836 ; 
and he also supplied Yarrell with information for his British 
Birds , and published several editions of a Synonymic List 
of British Lepidoptera. He has the credit of first adding 
the Little Ringed Plover (one obtained at Shoreham) and 
the Blue-headed Wagtail (shot at Walton-on-the-Naze) to 
the British list. His ornithological collections, comprising 
540 examples in 288 cases, were sold by auction in 1871, 
owing to failing health and business losses ; his books and 
entomological collections being only saved to him by the 
kindness of his many friends. He was a member of the 
Society of Friends, like so many other naturalists of his day. 
He was never married, and after his death, on June 29, 1875, 
his entomological collections were deposited by his executors 
in the Bethnal Green branch of the South Kensington 
Museum. 
1836. A | Nomenclature | of | British Birds | being | A Systematic Cata- 
logue | of | all the species hitherto discovered | in | Great Britain 
and Ireland. | Intended for | Labelling Collections | of | British 
Birds and Their Eggs. | By Henry Doubleday. | London : | 
Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, | Stationers’ -Hall Court 
| MDCCCXXXVI. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 4 + pp. 28 un., printed on one side of 
coloured paper only. • 
