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his plates in the Ibis, Proceedings of the Zoological Society , 
and other periodicals are legion. His plates have always 
delighted the eye, and of the innumerable works illustrated 
by him it would be hard to name the most beautiful, yet 
some exceptionally fine plates were executed for his Cage 
Birds , perhaps the sole work published under his name in 
this country. 
One of his earliest plates was illustrating Sharpe’s paper 
on the Crested Kingfishers of Africa in the Quarterly Magazine 
of the High Wycombe Nat. Hist. Society, 1866-67, and in 
1869 he came to England to illustrate Dr. Sharpe’s books, 
commencing with the Monograph of Kingfishers. He was 
born at Rotterdam of Dutch parents, June 8, 1842, and 
entered the Leyden Museum at the age of eighteen. He had 
a great love of travel and visited Africa at the age of twenty, 
later travelling over almost the whole of Europe. He was 
twice married, and left nine children. In his later years he 
lived at Southend-on-Sea. 
*1871. A Natural History' of Cage Birds. With Six [Twenty-four] 
Coloured Plates drawn and lithographed by the Author. Pt. 
I. [-IV.]. London : 1871. 
Collation — Four pts. imp. 8vo, 20 col. pi. of British Birds and 
4 of foreign/ with 42 pp. of descriptive text. Only four 
numbers issued, the work being left unfinished. Part I. was 
issued February 1871 ; Part II., April 1871 ; Part III., June 1871 ; 
Part IV., September 1871. Part IV. is rare. No title was issued. 
1885-97. [Illustrated by.] Lilford’s Coloured Figures of the Birds of the 
British Isles. 
See under Lilford (Lord). The first portion only was illus- 
trated by Keulemans. 
1900. [Illustrations to] Natural History of Selborne. Ed. K. B. Sharpe. 
See under White (Gilbert). 
Kidd (Waring). See Newman (Edward) 
Kidd (William), 1803-67 
This author, who was more of an aviculturist than 
an ornithologist, was apprenticed in early life to Baldwin, 
1 I.e. Parrot, Waxbill, Weaver-bird (2). 
