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remained till his twentieth year, adding a taste for beauty 
and the culture of flowers to his other pursuits. Removing 
shortly afterwards to the metropolis, as being now likely to 
afford him a wider scope and greater opportunities for his 
studies, he obtained an appointment at the Zoological Society 
in 1827, and was fortunafe enough in 1830 to obtain possession 
of a fine collection of birds from the hill countries of India. 
Fortunate, too, was he in the fact of its being the first collec- 
tion of any extent which had reached Europe from the 
great Himalaya range, and he hastened to illustrate the more 
important species in the Century of Birds from the Himalaya 
Mountains. This was published in 1832, and its success was 
so marked that Mr. Gould was induced to commence another 
volume — this time of a more ambitious character — on the 
Birds of Europe. Between the period of the publication of 
this latter work and the year 1838 he issued two monographs 
—one on the Ramphastidce and the other on the Trogonidce ; 
and on the opening of the year just mentioned, set sail for 
Australia — then a but little known country — in order to 
study the natural productions of the fifth continent. The 
Birds of Australia was the result of that visit. From that 
period Mr. Gould was an unceasing worker in the field of 
ornithology, and besides his other more important writings 
he produced several 8vo volumes, including Introductions 
to the Mammals and Birds of Australia and to the Trochilidce, 
and more especially a Handbook to the Birds of Australia , 
comprising all the information known respecting the various 
species to the close of 1865. 
He died at his residence in Charlotte Street, Bedford 
Square, in 1881, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. He 
was a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and also a 
Fellow and Honorary Member of many other learned societies. 
*18[32-]37. The | Birds of Europe. | By | John Gould, F.L.S., &c. | — 
In Five Volumes | — | Vol. I. | Rapt ores. [mut. mut.] 
London : | Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, Red Lion 
Court, Fleet Street. | Published by the Author, 20 Broad Street, 
Golden Square. | 1837. 
Collation — 5 vols. imp. folio. Published in parts, 1832-37. 
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