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America ; lie also wrote papers on lepidoptera. He has never, 
however, devoted any serious attention to British birds. 
He is D.C.L. (Oxford), F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., 
F.E.S. (of which he was President for some years), F.Soc. 
Antiquaries, Memb. Roy. Inst., a Trustee of the British 
Museum, M.B.O.U. (Secretary from 1870 to 1882 and from 
1889 to 1897, President from 1896). 
1883. [On Committee for.] A List of British Birds., compiled by a Com- 
mittee of the B.O.U. 8vo. London : 1883. 
See under British Ornithologists’ Union (Committee of). 
Goldsmith (Oliver), 1728-74 
This famous poet and historian was author, amongst 
other works, of Animated Nature , 1774, from which the 
undermentioned work was apparently adapted. 
*1838. Goldsmith’s History | of | British and Foreign | Birds. | With | 
numerous original Notes | &c., &c. [coloured device] London. | 
Published for the Proprietor | by Smith Elder & Co., and Thos. 
Tegg & Son. mdcccxxxviii. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 400. pi. 46 (coloured). 
See also under Anonymous (1815). 
Goodchild (Herbert), nat. 1873 
This ornithological artist is best known by the numerous 
plates he has executed for the Avicultural Magazine and 
other journals and books. He is a member of the B.O.U., 
and was born October 12, 1873, in Cumberland. His father, 
the late J. G. Goodchild, of the Geological Survey of Scotland, 
Edinburgh, was also an ornithologist, and contributed papers 
on the cubital coverts in birds and on moulting and allied 
subjects to the Proc. Zool. Soc. and Proc. Phys. Soc., 
Edinburgh, etc. 
The first plate published by Herbert Goodchild was 
illustrative of his father’s paper on Crested Birds of Prey, 
1891, and he has executed some seventeen plates for The Ihis. 
Apart from his claim to a place in the present work as an 
ornithological artist, he has written several articles and 
