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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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1896. The position of the feet of Birds during flight. (Ibis, pp. 157-8.) 
The Sand-Grouse breeding in Captivity. (Zoologist, pp. 298-9.) 
1897. Sand-Grouse. (Avicultural Mag. iii. pp. 177-80.) 
1900. Aves. [In Victoria History of Co. of Hants, i. pp. 208-38.] London : 
1900. 4to. 
On the results of providing Nesting Boxes for Birds in Kent. (Bull. 
B.Q.C. xi. pp. 13-15.) 
1904. Nesting Boxes for Wild Birds. (Avicultural Mag. (2), ii. pp. 259-62.) 
1905. On the Nesting of the Kite in Wales. (Rep. of B.Q.C. Kite-Fund.) 
(Bull. B.Q.C. xv. pp. 97-8.) 
On the Nesting of the Kite in England, (Op. cit. xvi. pp. 9-10.) 
1908. Old English Nesting Bottles. (Brit. Birds, ii. pp. 164-5.) 
1910. On the Preservation of Kites in Wales. (Bull. B.Q.C. xxv. pp. 82-3 
and xxvii. pp. 8-9.) 
Mellersh (William Lock), B.A., m? 
This author, who dates his preface from “ The Gryphons, 
Cheltenham,” expressly tells us that his Treatise does not 
pretend to be a county history, but only 44 attempts to 
present the chief features of the life of wild birds as specially 
connected with Gloucestershire,” for which county he claims 
270 of the species on the British list. 
1896. Habits of the Cuckoo in confinement. (Zoologist, pp. 357-8.) 
1897. Article, Dippers. [In Soc. Protect. Birds, Educat. Series, i. No. 7.] 
Sm. 4to, pp. 4* 
1902. A Treatise on the Birds of Gloucestershire, with a Reference List of 
All the Species Known to have Appeared in the County. Glou- 
cester and London : 1902. 
Collation — 1 vol. roy. 8vo, pp. viii + pp. Ill, with map and 6 pi. 
Also a cheaper issue (2s. 6d.) in paper wrappers instead of cloth 
— otherwise identical. 
Melvill (James Cosmo). See Bridgeman (Hon. F. C. 
and Hon. G. O. M.) 
Menteath (Sir James Stuart, Bart.), 1792-1870 
Sir James Stuart Menteath, of Closeburn, author of the 
undernoted pamphlet, which is now very scarce, was perhaps 
more of an agriculturist than an ornithologist, and indeed 
