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History. | By William Holloway, | and | John Branch, A.M. | 
Quadrupeds, [etc.] | Yol. I. [-IY.]. | London : | Printed by J. D. 
Dewick, Aldersgate Street, | for John Badcock, Paternoster Row. 
| 1803. 
4 vols. 18mo, numerous coloured plates. Yols. I. and II., Quad- 
rupeds ; Yol. III., Pishes, Insects ; Yol. IV., Birds. This last 
vol. contains figures and descriptions of some thirty British and 
fifty foreign birds. 
Horne (George), 1826-96 
George Horne, of Hereford, who died at the beginning of 
March 1896, does not appear to have published anything 
on birds beyond the nndernoted list. He was more con- 
cerned in the rearing of the various species of Pheasants, in 
which he was eminently successful. 
1889. An Authenticated List of the Birds of Herefordshire. . . . Hereford 
(Jakeman & Carver) : 1889. 
* Collation — 8vo pamphlet, pp. 24. 
Horsfield (Herbert Knight), nat. 1856 
Mr. Horsfield, of Crescent Hill, Filey, Yorkshire, has 
been a member of the B.O.U. since 1888. He is a contributor 
to the Field and other periodicals. 
1908. English Bird Life. Illustrated. London (Everett) : 1908. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. xvi + pp. 466, with front., photo, 
ill. (Pub. 7s. 6d. ne.t.) 
Horsfield (T. W.). See Mantell (G. A.) 
Houghton (Rev. William), 1828-95 
The Rev. W. Houghton, M.A., F.L.S., was born in 1828 ; 
educated at Brasenose College, Oxford (Hulmeian Exhibition, 
1851-52), and rowed in his college boat on six occasions. 
He graduated B,A. 1850, M.A. 1853 ; was ordained in 1853, 
and became Headmaster of Solihull Grammar School. He 
became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1859, and was 
Rector of Preston-on-the- Wild-Moors, near Wellington, Salop, 
from 1860 to his death in 1895. He is best known by his 
works on British fishes, the most important of these being 
