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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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(as usually bound) 8 vols. Vol. I., pt. 1, mdcclxxxi, engr. title 
+ pp. vi + pp. 2 un. + pp. 1-416, with 16 col. pi. Yol. I., pt. 2, 
mdcclxxxii, engr. title + pp. 417-788 + index, etc. pp. xxxiv un., 
with pi. xvii-xxxv. Yol. II., pt. 1, mdcclxxxiii, engr. title -h 
pp. ii + pp. 1-366, with pi. xxxvi-1. Vol. II., pt. 2, mdcclxxxiii, 
engr. title + pp. 367-808 + index, etc. pp. xxxviii un., with pi. li- 
lxix. Yol. III., pt. 1, mdcclxxxv, engr. title + pp. iii + pp. 1-328, 
with pi. Ixx-xcv. Yol. III., pt. 2, mdcclxxxv, engr. title + pp. 329- 
628 + indexes, etc. pp. xliv un., with pi. xcvi-cvi. Supplement 
(First), mdcclxxxvii, engr. title + pp. iii + pp. 298 + index, etc. pp. 
xv, with pi. cvii-cxix. Supplement II., mdcccii , 1 engr. title + 
pp. 376 + pp. 17 un. index + p. 1 directions for plates, and p. 1 
title Index Ornithologicus + pp. lxxiv, with pi. cxx-cxl + pl. 
cxxxvi* and cxxxviii* = 142 pi. in all in the work. 
The first volume was published by Benj. White ; the remainder 
by Leigh and Sotheby. 
Note. — The first Supplement, dated mdcclxxxvii, contains at 
pp. 281-98 “ A List of the Birds of Great Britain ” with brief 
notes. 
*1790-1801. Index Ornithologicus. Vol. I., 1790, pp. xviii + pp. 1-466 ; 
Vol. II., 1790, title + pp. 467-790. Supplement, 1801. 
Note. — This Index Ornithologicus is an abstract of the 
Synopsis, in which the author introduced names on the Linnsean 
method for all the species in the former work. 
*1821-28. A General History of Birds. (Practically a 2nd edit, of the 
Synopsis), 11 vols. 4to. Winchester : 1821-28. 
Contains a few additional plates, but scarcely any corrections 
and hardly any new divisions. 
Latham (Symon), fl. ca. 1615 
Symon, or Simon, Latham is stated to have derived his 
“ art and understanding 55 of falconry from Henry Sadleir of 
Everley, Wiltshire, third son of Sir Ralph Sadleir, Grand 
Falconer to Queen Elizabeth. He was afterwards appointed 
one of the officers under the Master of the Hawks. At the 
request of his friends he embodied his experiences in his 
celebrated Falconry. Nothing else whatever is known of his 
life, but according to the writer of the notice in the Diet. 
Nat. Biog. he is thought to have been the nephew of Lewis 
Latham of Elstow, Bedfordshire, under-falconer (1625) and 
1 Some copies are dated 1801, the second “ i ” in title date having apparently been 
inserted after it was printed. 
