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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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1887. [Preface to] White’s Selborne. (Camelot Series.) 
See under White (Gilbert), 1887. 
1889. Field and Hedge-row ; being the last Essays of Richard Jefferies, 
collected by his widow. London : 1889. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. viii + pp. 331. 
Jennings (Rev. C ), ca. 1851 
The undermentioned work, the illustrations to which are 
by one Dickes, figures the eggs of only some fifty species. 
Many errors in the naming of these occur, while the colouring 
also is bad. The work, according to the Preface, was, how- 
ever, prepared for children. We know nothing concerning 
the author. Hartlaub (vide infra) cites him as “Rev.” 
Coues says, “ The book took well and had a useful career.” 
Engelmann adds the information that each edition was 
published at 6s. 6d. Both editions are now scarce. 
[1853.] The Eggs of British Birds, displayed in a series of engravings, 
copied and coloured from nature, with descriptions of British 
Birds. The illustrations by Dickes. Bath and London : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. post, pp. xxx + pp. 2 un. + pp. 200 with col. 
title and 7 col. plates of eggs. 
Note — First edit, was published in 1853 at 6s. (Cf. Hartlaub 
in Arch. f. Naturg. xx. Berichte, Bd. 2, p. 40.) 
Idem. 2nd edit. 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xxii + pp. 266, with 
col. title and 7 pi. 
1 vol. fcap. 8vo. (Pub. 6s. 6d.) Date and price quoted from 
the English Catalogue of Books. 
Jennings (James), ca. 1828 
Of the poetical production of this author, Neville Wood 
(Orn. Text Book) writes : “ We have never had the misfortune 
to meet with a book so full of errors — both of the author 
and printer — as the Ornithologia. We do not admire the 
plan of introducing science into poetry at all, but never did 
we behold anything less like either poetry or science than in 
this work.” 
There is a note by this writer on the “ Ornithology of the 
Metropolis ” in Loudon’s Mag. Nat. Hist, for 1829 (p. 264). 
*1828. Ornithologia, | or | The Birds : | A Poem, in two parts ; | with | 
