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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[KNOX 
Jane Parsons, daughter of the second Earl of Eosse, and, 
therefore, sister to the constructor of the famous telescope. 
Mr. Knox soon after took up his abode near Pagham, on the 
coast of Sussex, and there began a course of observations 
on the birds of that county, the results of which have ap- 
peared in his two best-known works. A few years later 
he removed to New Grove, near Petworth ; subsequently to 
St. Ann’s Hill, Midhurst ; about 1860 to Trotton House, near 
Petersfield ; and finally to Dale Park, Arundel, the home of 
a married daughter. 
Knox did not profess to be a scientific naturalist in the 
strict acceptation of the term ; but he was an excellent out- 
door observer of the ways of animals, and was especially fond 
of birds. Indeed his collection of Sussex birds, amongst 
which were many valuable rarities, was a feature in his 
country house which never failed to attract and interest his 
visitors. A tall, spare man, clean-shaven and with a clear, 
keen eye, there was that about him which seemed to claim 
attention and respect from all with whom he might converse. 
He was what might be called a good “ all-round sportsman ” ; 
for hunting, shooting, hawking, deer-stalking, fishing — and 
especially salmon-fishing — were his delight. As a privileged 
friend of the Duke of Eichmond and Gordon, he was a 
frequent visitor in autumn to Speyside, where he made 
successful forays amongst salmon, deer, and grouse, and 
jotted down those pleasant field-notes which were subse- 
quently printed in his Autumns on the Spey. 
As a writer, Knox commenced by forwarding to the 
Zoologist , in 1843, a series of articles on “ The Birds of Sussex.” 
These paved the way for a “ Systematic Catalogue of Sussex 
Birds,” which soon after appeared, in 1849, as an appendix to 
his Ornithological Rambles in Sussex , a most entertaining 
work, which has passed through three editions. The favour 
with which this (his first book) was received encouraged him 
to undertake a second, and his Game Birds and Wild Fowl , 
their Friends and Foes appeared in 1850. 
For the first and second editions of his Ornithological 
