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1886. Great Destruction of Swallows. (Trans. Curnb. and Westm. Assoc. 
xi. pp. 149-51.) 
[With H. A. Macpherson.] Nesting of Shoveler in Cumber- 
land. ( Naturalist , pp. 235-6.) 
1887. Our Summer Visitants, pt. iii. (Trans. Cumb. and Westm. Assoc. 
xii. pp. 87-109.) 
[With H. A. Macpherson.] Zoological Record for Cumberland, 
1886. (T.c. pp. 29-46.) 
1888. [With the same.] Ornithological Record for Cumberland, January - 
June, 1888. (Op. cit. xiii. pp. 25-9.) 
Duncan (John), nat. 1840 
From his childhood, this writer and illustrator was 
familiar with birds, his father having been Robert Duncan, 
the Newcastle taxidermist. At the age of fourteen, John 
Duncan was apprenticed to William Wailes, the ecclesiastical 
glass-painter, with whom, and with Wailes & Strang, he 
worked for nearly forty years. He devoted his spare time, 
however, to the study of birds, and made many drawings 
of them. Some time in the later “ ’eighties ” he became 
“ Naturalist Editor ” to the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle , 
and commenced in its columns the series of pen-and-ink 
sketches of British birds which ultimately formed the under- 
noted book. He also executed the figures — both coloured 
and black-and-white — for Mr. Charles Dixon’s Bird-Life of 
London (q.v.), published in 1909. 
1898. Birds of the British Isles, drawn and described by John Duncan. 
With an Introduction by Charles Dixon. Reprinted from the 
Newcastle Weekly Chronicle. London & Newcastle (W. Scott) : 
1898. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xvi + pp. 448, num. ill. by 
author. (Pub. 5s. net.) 
Also on Large Paper, 4to. With col. front, of Great Auk. 
Duncan (Henry), 1774-1846 
The Rev. Henry Duncan, D.D., noted as the founder of 
Savings Banks, was born in 1774 at Lochrutton, Kirkcud- 
brightshire, where his father was minister. He was educated 
at St. Andrews University, and ordained in 1798, when 
