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1891. On British Fossil Birds. (Ibis, pp. 381-410.) [Includes the Great 
Auk and other recent species.] 
1908. The Sportsman’s British Bird Book. London : 1908. 
Collation — 1 vol. roy. 8vo, pp. xvii + pp. 620, with 320 photo 
ill. (Pub. 30s. net.) 
Note . — 448 pp. are given to the lower orders, the Game Birds 
being taken first, and the Perching Birds are considered more 
briefly at the end of the work. 
Lydon (A F— — ), viv. 
In conjunction with C. Lydon this author also executed 
the coloured illustrations for Dr. Sharpe’s Sketchbook of 
British Birds ( 1898 ). 
1910. British Birds’ Eggs. Described and Illustrated with Twenty 
Coloured Plates. London (S.P.C.K.) : 1910. 
Collation — 1 vol. roy. 8vo, pp. 62, 20 pi. (Pub. 5s. net.) 
McAldowie (Alexander Morison), viv. 
This writer, who now resides at Cheltenham, took his 
M.B. degree in 1875 and his M.D. in 1879 from Aberdeen 
University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edin- 
burgh. Of his Birds of Staffordshire only a hundred copies 
were issued for private circulation. 
1886. Observations on the Development and the Decay of the Pigment 
Layer on Birds’ Eggs. (Jour. Anat. and Phys. pp. 225-37.) 
1893. The Birds of Staffordshire, with Illustrations of Local Bird Haunts. 
Stoke-on-Trent (privately printed) : 1893. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. vi + pp. 146, with Index, 5 pp., and 
7 pi. 
Macaulay (Kenneth), 1723-79 
Macaulay, whose title to the authorship of the under- 
mentioned work is open to doubt, was the third son of Aulay 
Macaulay ( 1673 - 1758 ), Minister of Harris in the Hebrides. 
He was educated at King’s College, Aberdeen, and entered 
the ministry, being sent by the Kirk on a special mission to 
St. Kilda in 1759 . In 1764 he published the History as his 
own composition ; but Dr. Johnson, who with Boswell 
visited him on his journey to the Hebrides, came to the 
