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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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Gordon (William John), nat. 1849 
This writer has produced a series of popular works, on 
the lines of the one cited below, including one on mammals, 
reptiles, etc., one on fishes, butterflies, and moths, one on 
shells, and one on' flowers ; the idea being to give a figure 
of every species at a very cheap price, the figures, however, 
being small and grouped very closely on the plates, while the 
colouring is necessarily rather crude. He has also produced 
some thirty other works of a miscellaneous nature. 
[1892.] Our Country’s Birds, and How to Know Them, a Guide to all the 
Birds of Great Britain, with an Illustration in Colour of Every 
Species, and many Original Diagrams by G. Willis and E. E. 
Holding. London : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. vii + pp. 152, with 32 pi. (398 
figs.). (Pub. 6s.) 
Idem. A reissue. (Pub. 3s. 6d.) London (Simpkin) : n.d. 
[1905.] Eggs of the Native Birds of Britain and List of British Birds, past 
and present. Being a Supplement to Our Country’s Birds, 
etc. London (Simpkin) : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 64. 
Gorrie (Eev. Daniel), ca. 1868 
The ornithological information in the undernoted work 
is of considerable extent. In Chap. VI. is an account of the 
birds of the Orkneys, including also “ rarae aves ,” “ birds 
of passage,” “ beach -birds,” etc. The author belonged to 
Kettle, Fifeshire. 
1838. Summers and Winters in the Orkneys. London (Hodder & 
Stoughton) : mdccclxviii. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. vii (incl. front.) +pp. 384. 
Chap. vi. (pp. 199-253) is mainly on Birds, and Chap. vii. 
includes Fowling, etc. 
Gosse (Philip Henry), 1810-88 
This popular writer was born at Worcester, April 6, 1810. 
He went at an early age to reside at Poole, Dorset, where he 
imbibed his taste for natural history. Subsequently he 
entered the mercantile profession, and visited Newfoundland 
on business in 1827, remaining there for eight years, during 
