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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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Gray (George Kobert), 1808-72 
This author, a Fellow of the Linnean and Zoological 
Societies and Senior Assistant of the Natural History Depart- 
ment in the British Museum — an ornithologist of the first 
rank, — has done little connected with British birds beyond 
the lists undermentioned. His magnum opus is his Genera 
of Birds in three roy. 4to volumes, with 360 plates (185 of 
which are coloured) by D. W. Mitchell, Secretary of the 
Zoological Society. 
A brother of this eminent zoologist, John Edward Gray, 
was distinguished, among other departments, in that of 
ornithology, but does not appear to have done anything on 
British birds, although the prefaces to the two works first 
undermentioned are signed by him. He assisted with Gray 
and Hardwicke’s Indian Zoology , and intended to supply the 
text for this work, but owing to disputes which took the 
matter into Chancery the letterpress was never issued. He 
was the author of a Tabular View of the Orders and Families 
of Birds , and designed a work illustrating the birds of China, 
of which a portion only was prepared and ultimately issued 
by his brother G. B. Gray. 
1850— [52.] List | of the | Specimens | of | British Animals | in | the col- 
lection | of the | British Museum. | Part III. — Birds. | Printed 
by order of the Trustees. | London, | 1850. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. xiv + appendix and errata 2 pp. + 
pp. 275. 
Idem. Part IX., being Eggs of British Birds. Ib. : 1852. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. iv + pp. 143. 
1863. Catalogue of British Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. 
London : 1863. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xii + pp. 247 + p. 1 Appendix + 
pp. 8. 
Contains full synonyms and references. 
Gray (Kobert), 1825-87 1 
Kobert Gray was born at Dunbar on August 15, 1825. 
He formed no exception to the rule that a taste for natural 
1 For the substance of this memoir we are indebted to the late Robert Gray’s widow. 
