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which time he studied the natural history of Lower Canada 
and made extensive collections. On returning to England 
in 1840 he published his Canadian Naturalist. In 1844 he 
paid a visit to Jamaica, which led to the publication of his 
well-known Birds of Jamaica (1847), to accompany which he 
issued a much less generally known series of Illustrations of 
the Birds of Jamaica , comprising 52 hand-coloured plates, 
in imp. 8vo, 1849, — now very scarce, — while in conjunction 
with R. Hill he published A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica 
(1851). He also wrote a Natural History of Birds (1849). 
On his final return to England he settled at Torquay and 
devoted his attention more particularly to marine zoology, 
publishing several popular works, such as Tenby (1856), A 
Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast (1853), the 
latter containing a few unimportant references to birds; 
The Romance of Natural History (two series, 1860-61), and 
collaborated with C. T. Hudson in an important standard 
work on the Rotifera. He died at St. Marychurch, Torquay, 
August 23, 1888, and was buried in Torquay Cemetery. He 
became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856. A life of this 
author was published by his son, Edmund Gosse, in 1890. 
1819. Popular | British Ornithology ; | containing | a familiar and techni- 
cal | Description of the Birds | of the | British Isles. | By P. H. 
Gosse, | Author of “ The Ocean,” “ The Birds of Jamaica,” 
&c. | London : | Beeve, Benham and Beeve, King William Street. 
Strand, j 1849. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. iv + pp. 320, 20 pi. col. 
Also published with uncoloured plates. 
Idem. 2nd edit. London : 1853. 
Gough (Thomas), 1804-80 
This author contributed a list of birds of the Kendal 
district to the second edition of the undernoted work, the first 
edition of which appeared in 1840 but did not contain 
anything on the subject of ornithology. 
1861. Birds. [In Cornelius Nicholson’s Annals of Kendal , 2nd edition.] 
London and Kendal : 1861. 
Birds at pp. 307-10. 
