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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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Mathews (Mrs. W G ), viv. 
The undernoted work — which is written for children, 
and therefore calls for no special mention here — deals with 
sixteen familiar British birds. 
1900. The Message of the Birds : Stories of Bird-Life for the Bairns. 
London (Kelly) : 1900. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. x un. + pp. 11-128. with num. 
ill. 
Maton (William Geokge), 1774-1835 
Dr. Maton, of Redlynch House, Salisbury, son of George 
Maton, a wine merchant, was born at Salisbury, January 31, 
1774, and educated at the local Grammar School and Queen’s 
College, Oxford, where he took his M.A. in 1797. He became 
a Fellow of the Royal Society and Vice-President of the 
Linnean Society, and a physician of high repute. 
In the first work below mentioned, the ornithological 
matter is quite unimportant ; and in the second he seems to 
have paid attention chiefly to the botany of the district, the 
list of birds comprising only twenty -three species, and exhibit- 
ing no particular acquaintance with the subject. The Great 
Bustard is not included in the elect twenty-three, but is 
mentioned in the Introduction. Dr. Maton died before the 
work was published (Smith’s Birds of Wiltshire , Introduction, 
p. 5), the notes on which it was founded being made by him 
during the close of the eighteenth century. Indeed, he 
commenced to collect specimens in connection with the 
work as early as 1792 (Introduction, T.c., supra , p. 8). 
1797. Observations | relative chiefly to the | Natural History, | Pictur- 
esque Scenery, | and | Antiquities, | of the | Western Counties 
of England, | made in the years 1794 and 1796, | — | Illustrated 
by | A Mineralogical | Map, and Sixteen Views in Aquatinta by 
Aiken. | — | By William George Maton, M.A., Fellow of the 
Linnean Society. | — | Vol. I. [II.] — | Salisbury, | printed and 
sold by J. Easton : | [etc.] — | 1797. 
Collation — 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I. pp. xii + pp. 336, with 8 pi. 
Vol. II. pp. 216 + index, etc. 8 11., with 7 pi. and map. 
Contains notices of birds. 
