maxwell] BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 393 
1843. The | Natural History | of a part of | the County of Wilts, | com- 
prehended within the distance of ten miles round | the City of 
Salisbury. | By the late | George Maton, M.D. [ F.R.S., Y.P.L.S. 
| London : | Printed by J. B. Nicols and Son, | 25 Parliament 
Street. | 1843. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 74. 
Aves at pp. 65-8, also Intro, p. 5 and note. 
Maxwell (Sir Herbert Eustace, Bart.), nat. 1845 
The Et. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., E.R.S., D.C.L., 
LL.D., claims inclusion here on account of the series of 
volumes mentioned below, which are largely ornithological, 
although apparently the only ones among his many books 
that in any way touch upon our subject, his other works 
dealing with angling, gardening, history, fiction, etc. 
1897[— 1909]. Memories of the Months, Being Pages from the Notebook of 
a Field-Naturalist and Antiquary, to wit Sir Herbert Maxwell, 
Bart., M.P. London : 1897. 
Idem. 2nd ser., 1900 ; 3rd ser., 1903 ; 4th ser:, 1907 ; 5th 
ser., 1909. 
Collation — 5 vols. cr. 8vo. Yol. I. pp. xii + pp. 300, with 5 pi. ; 
Yol. II. pp. xv + pp. 295, with 5 pi. ; Yol. III. pp. xi + pp. 290, 
with 6 pi. ; Yol. IY. pp. xii + pp. 319, with 6 pi. ; Yol. Y. pp. xi + 
pp. 304, with 6 pi. 
These volumes contain a large number of chapters on and refer- 
ences to British birds. 
1897. Article Woodpeckers. [In Soc. Protect. Birds , Educat. Series, i. 
No. 2.] sm. 4to, pp. 4. 
1898. Article Peewit. [In Encyclopaedia of Sport, ii. p. 80.] 4to. London: 
1898. 
1905. Introduction [to W. P. Westell’s British Bird Life]. 8vo. London : 
1905. 
[Maxwell (William Hamilton)], 1792-1850 
This celebrated Irish novelist and historian has but 
small claim to a notice here, having actually written little 
or nothing of original matter relating to our subject. He 
was born at Newry, Co. Down, in 1782, and although at first 
in the Army, he as early as 1820 took holy orders. 
His Wild Shorts of the West , published in 1832, brought 
