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and are to be sold | by Edwarde White dwelling at the little 
North | doore of Paules at the signe of the Sunne | 1590. 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. 4to, pp. 93, incl. title. Black ^Letter, 
with fold. pi. of Crow-net set or bent, and woodcuts. 
Pp. 51-93, “ A booke of Sundrie Engines and Trappes,” has 
separate title-page with woodcut, and has woodcut figs, of traps 
for hawks, etc. Birds mentioned are Buzards, Kites, Dunkites, 
Crowes, Sparrowes, Bauens, Pyes. (B.M. copy C. 31, c 5.) 
Idem. Later editions in 1596, 1600, 1606. 
Masefield (John Richard Beech), viv. 
Mr. J. R. B. Masefield, M.A., of Rosehill, Cheadle, Staffs, 
is also interested in British lepidoptera, mollusca, and other 
subjects. He has in recent years been reporter on ornitho- 
logy for the North Staffs Field Club, while he was selected to 
write the bird section for the Victoria History of his county. 
1897. Wild Bird Protection and Nesting Boxes, with Illustrations of 
various designs of Boxes, Brackets, etc. that have actually been 
used by Wild Birds for Nidification. Leeds : 1897. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 129. 
1902. Hufous variety of the Common Partridge in Staffordshire. (Rep. 
North Staffs Club, xxxvi. pp. 65-8, pi. i.) 
1908. Birds. [In Victoria History of Co. of Staffs, i. pp. 139-61.] 
London : 1908. 
1909-12. Aves. (Rep. and Trans. North Staffs Club, xliii. [1909], pp. 70- 
75; xliv. [1910], pp. 67-71 ; xlv. [1911], pp. 68-76 ; xlvi. [1912], 
pp. 83-90.) 4 pts. 
Mason (R. H.). See under Gurney (J. H.), 1884 
Mathew (Rev. Murray Alexander), 1838-1908 
This well-known ornithologist was born in 1838 at Finchley, 
Middlesex, and was brought by his parents to Raleigh, 
Barnstaple, when an infant. He was educated at the Old 
Grammar School at Barnstaple and later at a school at 
Kensington, where he won first a scholarship at University 
College, Oxford, and secondly a post-mastership at Merton. 
His first curacy was in 1860 at St. Mary’s, Taunton ; then 
at the old parish church, Weston-super-Mare, where he 
